J%C3%B3zef Wielhorski

As an officer he fought in the PolishRussian War of 1792 and later, as a colonel, in the Kociuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kociuszko sent him to revolutionary France with the goal of obtaining help from the Committee of Public Safety, his requests for a French expeditionary corps were however futile. Under Napoleon, he would become a general in the Polish Legions, where he would be taken captive at the Siege of Mantua . As a protest for the FrenchAustrian peace, he returned to partitioned Poland, but in 1809, with the France again at war with Austria, he would join the proFrench Polish forces and became a general in the Duchy of Warsaw, where he also became a deputy minister of war. He remained in the Duchy during Napoleons invasion of Russia in its aftermath, in the Congress Poland, he was a Minister of War and a member of its senate.

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