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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.
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.
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 self-will of Grand Duke Konstantin and the infraction of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland, together with the rise of secret societies, led to the November Uprising (1830–1831). [1] The intensification of Russification occurred after the aforesaid uprising failed, leading to the abolishment of the Constitution of 1815 (granting ...
On 29 November 1830, he raised military insurgents, starting the November Uprising against Russia. [1] In 1831, he was sentenced to death by Russians, but his sentence was commuted to a 20 years exile in Siberia. [2] On 3 March 1831, he was awarded the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari. [3]
Polish National Government of 1831 was a Polish supreme authority during the November Uprising against the Russian occupation of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.It was formed by the decree of the Sejm (parliament) of the Congress Poland on 29 January 1831 to assume the competences of the Polish head of state in the follow-up of an earlier decree of 25 January: deposing the usurping Tsar ...
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 ...