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Died 1638. One of the leaders of a popular uprising in the Ukraine against the oppression of feudal Poland in 1637–38. Colonel of the Zaporozh’e Army.Skidan fought in the uprising of 1637 led by Pavliuk ( see BUT, PAVEL MIKHNOVICH). He organized rebel detachments from the Kiev area and Poltava. Supported by only some of the cossacks, he suffered defeat near Kumeiki and Borovitsa. He fled ...

Died 1638. One of the leaders of a popular uprising in the Ukraine against the oppression of feudal Poland in 1637–38. Colonel of the Zaporozh’e Army.Skidan fought in the uprising of 1637 led by Pavliuk ( see BUT, PAVEL MIKHNOVICH). He organized rebel detachments from the Kiev area and Poltava. Supported by only some of the cossacks, he suffered defeat near Kumeiki and Borovitsa. He fled ...

Died 1638. One of the leaders of a popular uprising in the Ukraine against the oppression of feudal Poland in 1637–38. Colonel of the Zaporozh’e Army.Skidan fought in the uprising of 1637 led by Pavliuk ( see BUT, PAVEL MIKHNOVICH). He organized rebel detachments from the Kiev area and Poltava. Supported by only some of the cossacks, he suffered defeat near Kumeiki and Borovitsa. He fled ...

C.1580–1638, first director-general of New Netherland, b. Wesel (then the duchy of Cleves). Sent by the Dutch West India Company to take charge of its holdings in America, Minuit purchased (1626) Manhattan from the Native Americans for trade goods costing 60 Dutch guilders and made New Amsterdam (later New York City) its center. Dismissed by the company in 1631, he later entered into negotiations ...

1602–44, English theologian. He was converted to Roman Catholicism and in 1630 went to Douai to study. Under the influence of his godfather, William Laud, he abjured that faith in 1634, and took holy orders (1638) in the Church of England. In 1638 he published The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation, a defense of the Protestant view that the Bible is the sole authority in matters of ...