God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE POLISH EMIGRATION 2I5 And shrieks the wild sea-mew. I morskie ptactwo swiergoce! Yon sun that sets upon the sea Dalej za slo ...
12. VARSOVIE: The Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815) Like many ephemeral states of the Revolutionary Era, from the Republic of Lombardy ...
THE DUCHY OF WARSAW 217 1800 by the Legion du Rhin under General Karol Kniaziewicz (1762-1842). The Polish legionnaries marched ...
zi8 VARSOVIE wishes of the people. In 1805, the balance tipped decisively in Napoleon's favour. The French occupied Vienna. The ...
THE DUCHY OF WARSAW 219 ...
220 VARSOVIE limited to an advisory role. An independent judiciary was to operate the Code Napoleon. Polish was to be the offici ...
THE DUCHY OF WARSAW 221 signed in the French resort in 1808, the French government ceded possession of former Prussian state pro ...
222 VARSOVIE Russia and serve in the Duchy's army. Poles from the Prussian and Austrian Partitions came over to swell the ranks; ...
THE DUCHY OF WARSAW 223 hope! I see you still, fair phantom of my dream. Born in slavery, and chained by my swaddling bands, I h ...
224 VARSOVIE Duchy of Warsaw was ruled as a Tsarist protectorate, awaiting the pleasure of the victors. The last act of independ ...
13 KONGRESOWKA: The Congress Kingdom (1815-1864) The Congress of Vienna did not assemble in September 1814 for the main purpose ...
22.6 KONGRESOWKA Bez Krakowa, Poznania, i Wieliczki, Polska nie warta ani swieczki. (Without Cracow, Poznari, and Wieliczka Pola ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 2.2.7 million by 1864, and over 13 million by 1910. It contained the largest single con- centration of Pole ...
228 KONGRESOWKA and Prince Xavery Drucki-Lubecki. Although there were plenty of people, espe- cially in the Catholic camp, who h ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 229 the state's expenditure, it was well armed and well trained. It wore Polish uni- forms, marched behind ...
230 KONGRESOWKA organization, the predecessor of several others of the same name, spawned a network of local cells across the Po ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 231 made no pretence of his con tempt for constitutional government. An autocrat alike by temperament and b ...
232 KONGRESOWKA The year 1830 in Europe saw the first general outburst against the system blessed by the Congress of Vienna. By ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 233 At last the day of blood has dawned. May it be the day of our deliverance! See the white eagle in all i ...
2-34 KONGRESOWKA Violence and confusion erupted on the night of 29 November. An assassina- tion squad of around twenty-four men ...
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