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In OTL, the Polish King Wladyslaw IV came up with a plan for a war against Turkey over the west coast of the Black Sea. The Senate voted the war down. Such a war would have involved battle ready Cossacks in plunder of Turkish lands and perhaps unified the Commonwealth against an external enemy. Could the Poles-Lithuanians-Cossacks have marched as far south as Bulgaria? Some Polish magnates did have dreams of a Crusade to liberate Constantinople...
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