Henryk Dembiński (1791-1864)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/167842
- Name (English)
- Henryk Dembiński
- Short name
- Henryk Dembiński
- Year of birth
- 1791
- Year of death
- 1864
- Short Description
- "Henryk Dembiński (16 January 1791 – 13 July 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.
Dembiński was born in Strzałków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 1809 he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the Napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte he remained in Poland and became one of the members of the Sejm of the Congress Poland.
In the Polish November Uprising of 1830, he was a successful leader of the Polish forces. In 1831, after his victorious campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to generał dywizji and for a brief period became the Polish Commander-in-Chief. He took part in the battles of Dębe Wielkie and Ostrołęka." - (en.wikipedia.org 14.12.2021) - Entity Encoding
- piz
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