Stanislaw Brzóska
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Stanisław Brzóska was a Polish
priest, general, supreme leader of the Polish insurgency and the last partisan of the January Uprising
. He commanded the Polish detachment in the South Podlasie region, defeating the Russian army in many skirmishes. He was captured eventually in April 1865, sentenced to death by the Russians and hanged publicly in Sokołów Podlaski in the presence of a crowd of 10,000 people.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
priest, general, supreme leader of the Polish insurgency and the last partisan of the January Uprising
January Uprising
The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...
. He commanded the Polish detachment in the South Podlasie region, defeating the Russian army in many skirmishes. He was captured eventually in April 1865, sentenced to death by the Russians and hanged publicly in Sokołów Podlaski in the presence of a crowd of 10,000 people.