November Uprising
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The November Uprising, also known as the Polish–Russian War of 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising b
Marcin Zaleski, Wzięcie Arsenału
The Battle of Olszynka Grochowska
Emilia Plater leading scythemen 1831
Seal of the "dictator" of the uprising
Emilia Plater
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Countess Emilia Broel-Plater was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitioned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Raised in a patriotic tradition in Līksna near Dauga
November Uprising
…attempts were made to rouse Volhynia, Podolia, Samogitia and Lithuania. With the exception of the Lithuanian uprising in which the youthful Countess Emilia Plater and several other women distinguished themselves, the guerilla warfare carried on in the frontier provinces was of minor importance and served only to…
Emilia Plater, anonymous 19th-century engraving
Plater's statement of 25 March 1831 on joining the November Uprising
Emilia Plater in a skirmish at Šiauliai by Wojciech Kossak