Lithuania
Due to different system of feudal overlordship, as well as lack of heraldic traditions, the units of Grand Duchy of Lithuania were all grouped under banners of two types: the Coat of Arms of Lithuania and the Columns of Gediminas. The only difference between various lands using the same emblem was the blazon. The hareness and the colour of the horse on the Coat of Arms of Lithuania differed.
Note that the number of Lithuanian banners is uncertain. According to Ioannes Longinus there were 40 banners on the right flank of the Polish-Lithuanian forces, 10 flying the Columns of Gediminas and 30 flying Coat of Arms of Lithuania. However, he also mentions that there might have been 2 additional banners from Smolensk and up to six additional banners of Samogitia. German authors also mention that there were three auxiliary banners of Moldavia flying their own flags. In addition, it is probable that the units from Trakai, Volhynia, Smolensk, Kiev and Navahrudak used their own emblems.
| Banner of |
Battle sign |
Origin |
Remarks |
| Army of the Grand Duchy - Flying the Coat of Arms of Lithuania Banners |
| Vytautas the Great |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Minsk |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Polack |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Hrodna |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Kreva |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Kryčaŭ |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Mahilioŭ |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Niaśviž |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Navahrudak |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Novhorod-Siverskyi |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Orša |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Slonim |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Sluck |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Viciebsk |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Volodymyr-Volynskyi |
Coat of arms of Lithuania |
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| Army of the Grand Duchy - Flying the Columns Banners |
| Sigismund Kestutaitis |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Albertas Manvydas |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Yurij, son of Lengvenis |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Trakai |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Vilnius |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Hrodna |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Kaunas |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Lida |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Medininkai |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Three (?) Banners of Smolensk |
Columns of Gediminas |
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under Lengvenis (Simon Lingwen) |
| Viciebsk |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Kiev |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Pinsk |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Navahrudak |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Brest |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Vaŭkavysk |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Drohiczyn |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Mielnik |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Krzemieniec |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Starodub |
Columns of Gediminas |
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| Auxiliary Units |
| Lipka Tatars |
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approximately 1000 skirmishers under Jalal ad-Din |
| Three Banners of Moldavia |
Aurochs of Moldavia |
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approximately 900 foot soldiers and 25 knights under logofăt Mihaiu Alexandrel |
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Polish wars and conflicts
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| Piast Poland |
- Battle of Cedynia
- German-Polish War (1002–1018)
- Boleslaw I's intervention in the Kievan succession crisis, 1018
- 1072 war against Bohemia
- Battle of Głogów
- 1146 war against Germany
- 1156 war against Germany
- 1240/1241, 1259/1260, 1287/88 Mongol invasions against Poland
- Polish–Teutonic War (1326–1332)
- Galicia–Volhynia Wars
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| Jagiellon Poland |
- Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
- Polish–Teutonic War (1414)
- Polish–Teutonic War (1422)
- Polish–Teutonic War (1431–1435)
- Battle of Grotniki
- 1444 war against the Ottomans
- Thirteen Years' War
- War of the Priests
- Polish–Moldavian War
- Polish–Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1512–1522)
- Polish–Teutonic War (1519–21)
- Polish–Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1534–1537)
- Ottoman–Tatar Invasion of Lithuania and Poland
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| Commonwealth |
- Northern Seven Years' War
- Danzig rebellion
- Siege of Danzig (1577)
- Livonian War
- Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory
- War of the Polish Succession (1587–1588)
- 1589 Tatar Invasion
- Kosiński Uprising
- 1593 Tatar Invasion
- Nalyvaiko Uprising
- Moldavian Magnate Wars
- Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621)
- Polish–Swedish wars
- War against Sigismund
- Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629)
- Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)
- Polish–Swedish War (1617–1618)
- Polish–Swedish War (1621–1625)
- Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629)
- Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
- Zebrzydowski Rebellion
- Thirty Years' War
- Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621)
- 1624 Tatar Invasion
- Zhmaylo Uprising
- Fedorovych Uprising
- Smolensk War
- Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)
- Polish–Ottoman War (1633–1634)
- Pawluk Uprising
- Ostrzanin Uprising
- 1644 Tatar Invasion
- Khmelnytsky Uprising
- Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)
- Second Northern War
- Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671)
- Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676)
- Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699)
- Great Northern War
- War of the Polish Succession
- War of the Bar Confederation
- Polish–Russian War of 1792
- Kościuszko Uprising
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| Poland partitioned |
- Haitian Revolution
- Napoleonic Wars
- Peninsular War
- War of the Fourth Coalition
- War of the Fifth Coalition
- War of the Sixth Coalition
- French invasion of Russia
- Greater Poland Uprising (1848)
- November Uprising
- January Uprising
- World War I
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| Second Republic |
- Polish–Ukrainian War
- Greater Poland Uprising
- Polish–Czechoslovak War
- First Silesian Uprising
- Polish–Soviet War
- Second Silesian Uprising
- Polish–Lithuanian War
- Third Silesian Uprising
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| Second World War |
- World War II
- German Invasion of Poland
- Polish contribution to World War II
- Italian Campaign
- Ghetto uprisings
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Białystok Ghetto Uprising
- Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising
- Operation Tempest
- Operation Ostra Brama
- Lwów Uprising
- Warsaw Uprising
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| People's Republic |
- Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
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| Third Republic |
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Iraq War
- 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Occupation of Iraq
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