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LANGIEWICZ, MARYAN (1827–1887)

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LANGIEWICZ, MARYAN (1827–1887) , See also:Polish patriot, was See also:born at Krotoszyn, in the See also:province of See also:Posen, on the 5th of See also:August 1827, his See also:father being the See also:local See also:doctor. Langiewicz was educated at Posen, See also:Breslau and See also:Prague, and was compelled to See also:earn his daily See also:bread by giving lectures. He subsequently entered the Prussian See also:Landwehr and served for a See also:year in the royal guard. In 186o he migrated to See also:Paris and was for a See also:time See also:professor in the high school founded there by Mieroslawski. The same year he took See also:part in See also:Garibaldi's Neapolitan See also:campaign, and was then a professor in the military school at See also:Cuneo till the See also:establishment was closed. In 1862 he entered into communication with the central Polish See also:committee at See also:Warsaw, and on the outbreak of the insurrection of the 22nd of See also:January 1863, took the command of the armed bands. He defeated the Russians at Wachock and Slupia (See also:February), capturing l000 muskets and 8 See also:cannon. This victory See also:drew hundreds of See also:young recruits to his See also:standard, till at last he had 12,000 men at his disposal. On the 23rd of February he again defeated the Russians, at Malogoszcza, and captured 500 muskets and 2 cannon. On the loth of See also:March he proclaimed himself See also:dictator and attempted to See also:form a See also:regular See also:government; but either he had insufficient organizing See also:talent, or had not time enough to carry out his plans, and after a fresh See also:series of engagements his See also:army was almost annihilated at Zagosc (18th of March), whereupon he took See also:refuge in See also:Austrian territory and was interned at See also:Tarnow. He was subsequently transferred to the fortress of Josephstadt, from which he was released in 1865. He then lived at Solothurn as a See also:citizen of the Swiss See also:Republic, and subsequently entered the See also:Turkish service as Langie See also:Bey.

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Constantinople on the 11th of May 1887. See Boleslaw Limanowski, The See also:National Insurrection of 1863–64 (Pol.) (See also:Lemberg, 1900) ; See also:Paolo Mazzoleni, I Bergamaschi in Polonia nel 1863 (See also:Bergamo, 1893) ; W. H. l3avink, De Poolsche opstand 1863, &c. (See also:Haarlem, 1864).

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