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STANISLAUS
See also:PoNIATOwsKI (1757—1833), son of Casimir, joined the See also:emperor at See also:Lutzen
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In the See also:campaign of 1813 he shared in the aggrandisement of the See also:family during the reign of guarded the passes of the Bohemian mountains and defended Stanislaus II., becoming See also:grand treasurer of Lithuania, starost the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Elbe
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As a See also:reward for his brilliant services of See also:Podolia and See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the royal See also:army
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In 1793 at the three days' See also:battle of See also:Leipzig he was made a See also:marshal of he settled in See also:Vienna, and subsequently in See also:Rome, where he made See also:France and entrusted with the See also:honourable but dangerous See also:duty a magnificent collection of See also:antique gems in his See also:house on the of covering the See also:retreat of the army
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Poniatowski heroically Via See also:Flaminia
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This collection was sold at See also:Christie's in See also:London defended Leipzig, losing See also:half his See also:corps in the See also:attempt, finally in May 1839
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He died in See also:Florence on the 13th of See also:February falling back slowly upon the See also:bridge over the See also:Elster which the 1833, and with him the See also:Polish and See also:Austrian honours became See also:French in the general confusion blew up before he reached it. See also:extinct
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Contesting every step with the overwhelming forces of the
His natural, but recognized, son, See also:JOSEPH See also:MICHAEL See also:XAVIER pursuers, he refused to surrender, and covered with wounds See also:FRANCIS See also:
E
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Raczynski, See also:Posen, 1843); Bronislaw Dembinski, Stanislaus
71
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See also:Pro See also:Augustus and Prince Joseph Poniatowski in the See also:light of their Corre-
in 1872
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He died on the 3rd of See also:July 1873, and was buried at spondence (Fr.; Lemberg, 1904); Szymon Askenazy, Prince See also:Chislehurst
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His son, Prince Stanislaus Augustus, married and Joseph Poniatowski (Pol.; Warsaw, 1905)
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(R
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B.)
settled in Paris
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He was See also:equerry to Napoleon III., and died PONS, See also:JEAN See also: |
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