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See also:CHLOPICKI, GREGORZ JOZEF (1772-1854) , See also:Polish See also:general, was See also:born in See also:March 1772 in See also:Podolia. He was educated at the school of the Basilians at Szarogrod, from which in 1787 he ran away in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to enlist as a volunteer in the Polish See also:army. He was See also:present at all the engagements fought during 1792-1794, especially distinguishing himself at the See also:battle of Raclawice, when he was General Rymkiewicz's See also:adjutant. On the formation of the See also:Italian See also:legion he joined the second See also:battalion as See also:major, and was publicly complimented by General See also:Oudinot for his extraordinary valour at the storming of Peschiera. He also distinguished himself at the battles of See also:Modena, Busano, See also:Casabianca and Ponto. In 1807 he commanded the first Vistulan See also:regiment, and rendered See also:good service at the battles of See also:Eylau and See also:Friedland. In See also:Spain he obtained the legion of See also:honour and the See also:rank of a See also:French See also:baron for his heroism at the battle of Epila and the storming of See also:Saragossa, and in 1809 was promoted to be general of See also:brigade. In 1812 he accompanied the Grande See also:Arm&e to See also:Russia, was seriously wounded at See also:Smolensk, and on the reconstruction of the Polish army in 1813 was made a general
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of See also:division. On his return to See also:Poland in 1814, he entered the See also:Russian army with the rank of a general officer, but a See also:personal insult from the See also:grand See also:duke See also:Constantine resulted in his retiring into private See also:life. He held aloof at first from the Polish See also:national rising of 183o, but at the general See also:request of his countrymen accepted the dictatorship on the 5th of See also:December 1830; on the 23rd of See also:January 1831, however, he resigned In order to fight as a See also:common soldier. At See also:Wavre (Feb. 19) and at Grochow (Feb. 20) he displayed all his old bravery, but was so seriously wounded at the battle of Olszyna that he had to be conveyed to See also:Cracow, near which See also:city he lived in See also:complete retirement till his See also:death in 1854.
See Jozef Maczynski, Life and Death of See also:Joseph Chlopicki (Pol.) (Cracow, 1858) ; Ignacy Pradzynski, The Four Last Polish Commanders (Poi.) (See also:Posen, 1865).
End of Article: CHLOPICKI, GREGORZ JOZEF (1772-1854)
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