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This is the second of two marches I've arranged for fifes & drums coming from a Polish late 18th century manuscript: "Marsz Czapskich" ("Czapski's March"), which was the march of the 3rd Regiment of Infantry of the Polish Crown Army, named after its commander. If this was composed around 1790, that would have been Mikołaj Hutten-Czapski, a Lieutenant-General who partook in the War in Defence of the Constitution in 1792. In this arrangement, everything but the melody itself has been imagined by me, as only the melody is extant in the source.

The image shows the victorious Polish troops after the Battle of Zielence in 1792, where the above mentioned Czapski commanded one of the wings of the Polish forces. It was painted by the Polish artist Wojciech Kossak in 1898.

Enjoy!