Category: Editorial

Maurycy Beniowski was born in Hungary in 1746. Most researchers consider him to be Hungarian while others see him as Slovak. Hungarian heraldists point to many connections between his family and Polish families. Beniowski himself, in his Memoirs, calls Poland his homeland of choice and himself a Pole. He was a participant in the Polish…

People were forced to sail in the so-called high northern latitudes by necessity. When in 1493 and 1994 Pope Alexander VI divided the world between Portugal and Spain with the Treaty of Tordesillas, the path to the riches of the Far East became closed to other nations. The Portuguese guarded the route around the Cape…