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On 19 March 1848, after the Revolution in Berlin succeeded throughout the Spring of Nations, King Frederick William IV of Prussia granted amnesty to the Polish prisoners, who joined the Berlin Home Guard in the evening of 20 March 1848 by founding a "Polish Legion" in the courtyard of the Berlin Palace, and were armed with weapons from the ...
Revolutions of 1848: a social history (2. print ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-691-00756-4., despite the subtitle this is a traditional political narrative; Sperber, Jonathan (2005). The European Revolutions, 1848–1851. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44590-0. Stearns, Peter N. (1974). The revolutions of 1848 ...
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 [3] or the Cadet Revolution, [4] was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.
Though the Polish insurrection in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 failed, many Poles had not lost sight of their longstanding dream of independence. To support the continuing revolutionary movements in Western Europe, Adam Mickiewicz outreached to the Polish community in Italy to form the Polish Legion which would serve the Italian ...
Pages in category "Greater Poland Uprising (1848) participants" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Disappointed by the failure of the Prussian Revolution in 1848, the biologist Fritz Müller realised there might be adverse effects on his life and career. As a result, he emigrated to South Brazil in 1852, with his brother August and their wives, to join Hermann Blumenau's new colony in the State of Santa Catarina.
The Great Emigration [1] [2] (Polish: Wielka Emigracja) [3] was the emigration of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830–1831 and of other uprisings such as the Kraków uprising of 1846 and the January Uprising of 1863–1864.
In 1839–1840 he gave lectures on the history of Slavic people in French Historical Institute in Paris; he was also considered by many among the Polish emigrants as a knowledgeable tactician and military strategist after the publication of a history of the November Uprising in Poland, Histoire de la revolution de Pologne (Paris, 1836–38). He ...