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GREGORZ JOZEF CHLOPICKI (1772-1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 253 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHLOPICKI (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 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 See also:CHLORAL 253 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 See also:Chlopicki (Pol.) (Cracow, 1858) ; Ignacy Pradzynski, The Four Last Polish Commanders (Poi.) (See also:Posen, 1865) .

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