For those unfamiliar with this fellow, Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Khmelnytsky uprising the history is very interesting and too detailed to sum up easily. But in short it was a Cossack uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. In the war that followed, Khmelnytsky managed to find new allies in the tatars to balance his army and was able to defeat the Polish-Lithuanian armies twice which led to creation of a Cossack hetmanate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Khmelnytsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deluge_%28Polish_history%29
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