Battle of Raszyn (1809)
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The Battle of Raszyn was fought on 19 April 1809 between armies of the Austrian Empire under Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este and the Duchy of Warsaw under Józef Antoni Poniatowski, as p
The Death of Cyprian Godebski at Raszyn January Suchodolski, 1855
Józef Poniatowski
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Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish military officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Raszyn (1809)
…was fought on 19 April 1809 between armies of the Austrian Empire under Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este and the Duchy of Warsaw under Józef Antoni Poniatowski, as part of the War of the Fifth Coalition in the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was not decisive, but it did result in the Austrians obtaining their goal…
Portrait of Poniatowski by Josef Grassi, c. 1810
Colonel Königsfels Teaching Prince Poniatowski to Ride by Bernardo Bellotto, 1773
Stanislaus Augustus of Poland encouraged his nephew to return and serve in the Polish ranks.
Poniatowski in 1792