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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.
Plater's statement of 25 March 1831 on joining the November Uprising. Emilia Plater was born in Vilnius into a noble Polish–Lithuanian Plater family. [6] Her family, of the Plater coat of arms, [6] had German ancestry, tracing its roots to Westphalia, but was thoroughly Polonized. [7]
Russian soldiers capturing Polish children at Castle Square in Warsaw. Incorporation of Polish children into the Imperial Russian Army occurred during and after the defeat of the November Uprising (1830–1831), when Polish adolescents were incorporated into the Imperial Army of the Russian Empire.
The slogan soon became very popular and became among the most commonly seen on military standards during the November Uprising (1830–1831). [4] During the war against Russia, the slogan was to signify that the Polish victory would also mean liberty for the peoples of Russia and that the uprising was aimed not at the Russian nation but at the ...
Kingdom of Poland (1830–1831) was a period in the history of the Congress Poland from the dethronement of Emperor Nicholas I from the Polish throne and thus breaking the personal union with the Russian Empire, until the end of the November Uprising. It was not a new political creation, but only a new concept of the existence of the state ...
The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon joined by large segments of Polish society, and the insurrection spread to the territories of Lithuania , western Belarus , and the right-bank of ...
Józef Longin Sowiński was born on 15 March 1777 in Warsaw.After graduating from the famous Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, he joined the Polish Army as a lieutenant during the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising.
Soon afterwards, he wrote a book on rules and regulations of Russian cavalry. In the autumn of 1830, when the November Uprising began, Dwernicki was stationed in Sieradz, where he commanded 3rd Regiment of Mounted Rifles. He was immediately ordered to return to Warsaw, where he was tasked with creating new units of the Polish Army.