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Maria Piotrowiczowa
Maria Piotrowiczowa was a Polish January Uprising, January insurgent and a participant of the battle of Dobra, Zgierz County, Dobra (the Łódź province). She was born in 1839 and killed on 24 February 1863. Family Piotrowiczowa came from a patriotic family with extensive landed estates near Łódź, Poland. Her parents were Zygmunt Rogoliński, an Insurgency, insurgent of 1831, and Ansberta Badeńska. Her father formed his own armed detachment in the November Uprising. At the age of 17, Maria was married to Konstanty Piotrowicz, a teacher from Chocianowice. Together with her husband, she joined a Polish national organization in Łódź. Piotrowiczowa and Piotrowicz were an outwardly well-matched couple. Piotrowicz was a kind, good and decent man who loved his homeland. An idealist, Piotrowicz took teaching jobs at the time of partitions to promote national and liberation ideas among the youth of poorer classes. He did not possess any wealth. Piotrowiczowa's family, on the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January Uprising
The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at the restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last insurgents were captured by the Russian forces in 1864. It was the longest-lasting insurgency in partitioned Poland. The conflict engaged all levels of society and arguably had profound repercussions on contemporary international relations and ultimately provoked a social and ideological paradigm shift in national events that went on to have a decisive influence on the subsequent development of Polish society. A confluence of factors rendered the uprising inevitable in early 1863. The Polish nobility and urban bourgeois circles longed for the semi-autonomous status they had enjoyed in Congress Poland before the previous insur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Dobra
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish. The word "battle" can also be used infrequently to refer to an entire operational campaign, although this usage greatly diverges from its conventional or customary meaning. Generally, the word "battle" is used for such campaigns if referring to a protracted combat encounter in which either one or both of the combatants had the same methods, resources, and strategic objectives throughout the encounter. Some prominent examples of this would be the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and Battle of Stalingrad, all in World War II. Wars and military campaigns are guided by military strategy, whereas bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
