The Crown Army was the

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service branch Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard a subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. Types of branches Unified armed forces The Canadian Armed Forces is the unifi ...

of the

military forces A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

of the

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ( pl, Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Latin: ''Corona Regni Poloniae''), known also as the Polish Crown, is the common name for the historic Late Middle Ages territorial possessions of the King of Poland, includ ...

in the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

. It existed from the establishment of the federation in 1569 until the

Third Partition of Poland The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish ...

in 1795.Bronisław Gembarzewski: ''Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831''.

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*Mariusz Machynia, Czesław Srzednicki: ''Oficerowie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów 1717-1794'', vol.1 1: ''Oficerowie wojska koronnego'', part 1: ''Sztaby i kawaleria''. Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2002. ISBN 83-71-88-500-8. *Bronisław Gembarzewski: ''Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831''. Warsaw: Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej, 1925. Military history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Disbanded armed forces Military units and formations disestablished in 1795 {{Poland-mil-stub