Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)
The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against German rule. The uprising had a significant effect on the Treaty of Versailles, which granted a reconstituted Second Polish Republic the area won by the Polish insurrectionists. The region had been part of the Kingdom of Poland and then Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth before the 1793 Second Partition of Poland when it was annexed by the German Kingdom of Prussia. It had also, following the 1806 Greater Poland uprising, been part of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815), a French puppet state during the Napoleonic Wars.
Polish soldiers in trenches on the Polish-German front, January 1919
Soldiers and workers assembling to elect a council in Poznań, 10 November 1918
German armored train during Grenzschutz in the station of Lissa in 1919.
Soldiers of the Greater Poland Army during the winter of 1919/20
Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska, is a Polish historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city in Poland.
Image: Poznan 10 2013 img 15 Old Market
Image: Cathedral of Gniezno (21)
Image: Kalisz Town Hall 2019 P02
Image: Pałac w Rogalinie (3)
