Jan henryk dabrowski wikipedia shqip

On November 3, 1806, leading the first units of the French army, Polish General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski entered Poznań and urged Poles to stand with Napoleon against Prussian occupation. The ensuing Greater Poland uprising was a decisive factor that allowed the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807.

Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the once mighty Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth found itself in an increasingly perilous situation.

By 1790, it was forced into an alliance with its enemy, Prussia, which gave the federation false hope that it might have at last found an ally that would shield it while the Great Sejm enacted a series of reforms, which culminated with the adoption of the May Constitution of 1791.

The Partition of Poland

But what was seen as radical republican Jacobin-style reforms on the Russian Empire’s doorstep angered Empress Catherine the Great.

And in 1792, invited by an alliance of pro-Russian Polish nobles who wished to restore the privil