Cossacks

The  are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

Quotes

 * The Kozacks, or, if so you please, Cossacques (I don’t much pique myself upon, So that I do not grossly err in facts,  Statistics, tactics, politics, and geography)— Having been used to serve on horses’ backs,  And no great dilettanti in topography Of fortresses, but fighting where it pleases Their chiefs to order,—were all cut to pieces.
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 8