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11 October 1918: Polish organizations in the German Empire publicise common documents in which they declare the will to create independent Polish state and, in effect, revolution. 9 November 1918: beginning of the German Revolution, which also occurred in Greater Poland.
The Polish army, with all but two of its generals, Wincenty Krasiński and Zygmunt Kurnatowski, now joined the uprising. The remaining four ministers of the pre-revolutionary cabinet left the administrative council, and their places were taken by Mochnacki and three of his associates from the Patriotic Club, including Joachim Lelewel. The new ...
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko [note 1] (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; [note 2] 4 or 12 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus.
Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski (Polish: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ puˈwaskʲi] ⓘ; March 4 or 6, 1745 [a] – October 11, 1779), anglicized as Casimir Pulaski (/ ˈ k æ z ɪ m ɪər p ə ˈ l æ s k i / KAZ-im-eer pə-LASK-ee), was a Polish nobleman, [b] soldier, and military commander who has been called "The Father of American cavalry" or "The Soldier of Liberty".
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 ...
Germans often wore both the Black-Red-Gold cockade and the Polish Red-White as a revolutionary symbol. [19] [page needed] On March 21, the National Committee released a proclamation calling for a common struggle seeking understanding with the Germans, and a day later recognized the rights of Jews . [14]
The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1999). Landau, Z. and Tomaszewski, J. The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1985) Olszewski, A. K. An Outline of Polish Art and Architecture, 1890-1980 (Warsaw: Interpress 1989.) Roszkowski, Wojciech. Landowners in Poland, 1918-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Independence Day (Polish: Narodowe Święto Niepodległości) is a national day in Poland celebrated on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 from the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires.