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TheBug Cossack Host (Ukrainian:Бузьке козацьке військо;Russian:Бугское казачье войско) was aCossack host and irregular army within Tsarist Russia,[1] which used to be located along theSouthern Buh River. The 2nd Bug Regiment was led by Ataman Pyotr Mikhailovich Skarzhinsky.[2] The 1st regiment was commanded by Ivan Kasperov.[3] In 1788, the two regiments merged into one Bug Cossack (1500 cavalry). The combined regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Pytor Mikhailovich Skarzhinsky, who would become the first ataman of the Bug Cossack army.[4][5]
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The Bug Cossack Host was formed in 1769 out ofUkrainians,Vlachs, andBulgarians, who had taken the side ofRussia during theRusso-Turkish War of 1768-1774. After the war, the regiment was quartered on the Southern Buh River. In 1788, the Bug Cossack Host became a part of theYekaterinoslav Cossack Host (disbanded in 1796) and protected the border. It was disbanded in 1800, only to be created again in 1803 under the original name. The Bug Cossack Host had to provide three regiments of 500 men each in the times of war. During theRusso-Turkish War (1806–1812), the Bug Cossacks participated in the siege of Izmail and battles in Bessarabia, Moldova, and Wallachia.[6] During the war with Napoleon I of 1812–14 they conducted operations as partisans. Detachments led by D. Davydov, O. Figner, O. Seslavin, successfully fought in France, for which they were awarded theOrder of St. George standard "For Bravery" by Russian Tsal Alexander I.[7] In 1817, it was included into themilitary settlements and combined with the two Cossack regiments into a BugUhlan Division of the Russan Imperial Army.[8]
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