Kazaki[2] were armed, free Muslim farmers of the Tatar Khanate between the Crimea and Siberia, who in the course of the steppe wars of the 13th and 14th centuries demonstrated their military potency especially in ambitious raids behind enemy lines, where they sowed panic in the population and disrupted lines of communication. Learning from the enemy from the 14th century, not only did Lithuania (Poland-Lithuania from 1386), …