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SKRZYNECKI , JAI'IZYGMUNT (1787-186o), See also:

Polish See also:general, was See also:born in See also:Galicia in 1787. After completing his See also:education at the university of See also:Lemberg, he entered the Polish See also:Legion formed in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Warsaw, as a See also:common soldier and won his lieutenancy at the See also:battle of Raszyn in ',Soo. At the battle of See also:Leipzig he greatly distinguished himself and at Arcis-sur-See also:Aube, in 1814, saved See also:Napoleon from the sudden onslaught of the enemy by sheltering him in the midst of his See also:battalion. On the formation of the See also:kingdom of See also:Poland in 18,15 Skrzynecki was put in command of five See also:infantry regiments of the See also:line, and on joining the insurrection of r83o was entrusted with the organization of the Polish See also:army. After the battle of Grochow, he superseded See also:Prince Radziwill as See also:commander in See also:chief; but avoided all decisive operations as he hoped for the pacific intervention of the See also:Powers in favour of Poland. In the beginning of See also:March 1831 he even entered into See also:correspondence with the See also:Russian See also:Field-See also:marshal See also:Diebitsch, who was taken very See also:ill both at See also:Paris and See also:London. When at last Skrzynecki did take the offensive his opportunity was gone, and he committed more than one See also:tactical blunder. At Ostrolenka (26th of May 1831) he showed his usual valour and considerable ability, but after a bloody contest Diebitsch prevailed and Skrzynecki See also:fell back upon Warsaw, where he demanded a reconstruction of the See also:government and his own See also:appointment as See also:dictator. To this the See also:diet would not consent, though it gave Skrzynecki a See also:vote of confidence. But public See also:opinion was now See also:running strongly against him and he was forced on the loth of See also:August, in his See also:camp at Bolimow, to See also:place his resignation in the hands of his successor, Dembinski. Skrzynecki thereupon joined a guerilla See also:corps and on the 22nd of See also:September took See also:refuge in See also:Austrian territory. Subsequently he resided at See also:Prague, but migrated to See also:Brussels where he was made commander in chief of the Belgian army, an appointment he was forced to resign by the combined and emphatic protest of See also:Russia, See also:Austria and See also:Prussia, in 1839.

With the permission of the Austrian government he finally settled at See also:

Cracow, where be died in 186o. Skrzynecki 'vas remarkable for l See also:personal dourageand made an excellent general of divisidi, h, he was unequal to the heavier responsibility of supreme command, and<did much harm in that capacity by his irresolution. He wrote Two Victorious Days (Pol.) (Warsaw, t831); and See also:Mes Erreurs (Paris, 1835). See S. J. N. See also:Montalembert'et sa correspondance inidite avec le generalisssme Skrzynecki (Montligeon, 19o3) ; Ignacy Pradzynski, The last fear Polish Commanders (Pol.) (See also:Posen, 1865). (R. N.

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