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The Kościuszko Uprising, [h] also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794, [2] [i] Second Polish War, [3] [j] Polish Campaign of 1794, [4] [k] and the Polish Revolution of 1794, [5] [l] was an uprising against the Russian and Prussian [6] influence on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland-Lithuania and the ...
The Cambridge History of Poland (two vols., 1941–1950) online edition vol 1 to 1696 Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine; Butterwick, Richard, ed. The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500-1795. Palgrave, 2001. 249 pp. online edition Archived 2008-05-04 at the Wayback Machine; Davies, Norman.
However, the situation changed in June 1794 when the Prussians declared their support for Tsarist Russia and offered them military support in suppressing Kościuszko (after his victory at the Battle of Racławice). [1] As a result, the Supreme National Council issued a proclamation To the Citizens of Greater Poland calling them to arms. [1]
On 27 May the council was dissolved, and power passed to Kościuszko's Supreme National Council (Polish: Rada Najwyższa Narodowa). On 9 May four prominent supporters of the Targowica Confederation, including Józef Ankwicz, Józef Kossakowski, hetman Piotr Ożarowski and hetman Józef Zabiełło , were sentenced to death by the Insurrectionary ...
On April 24 the “Act of Rebellion of the Lithuanian Nation” was announced. The rebels declared their unity with the Kościuszko Uprising, which had begun in Lesser Poland. On the same day, April 24, the so-called High Temporary Council was created, headed by the Mayor of Vilnius, Antoni Tyzenhaus, and Voivode of Novogrudok, Józef ...
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The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (1949), older scholarly survey. online; Moyen, Eric A. Frank L. McVey and the University of Kentucky: A Progressive President and the Modernization of a Southern University (U.P. of Kentucky, 2011). online; Kimball, Philip C. "Freedom's Harvest: Freedmen's Schools in Kentucky after the ...
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.