On the anniversary of the November Uprising Jan Led\u00f3chowski shall be telling the story of two distant cousins who ended up in the middle of one of Poland\u2019s greatest dramas: Dethroning the Tsar and commanding Poland\u2019s Last Stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 29th, \u201cNovember Night\u201d, 1830, Poland rose in another struggle for independence against the mighty Russian Empire. Two months later, Jan Led\u00f3chowski led the crowd of MPs in Parliament shouting \u201cPrecz z Miko\u0142ajem\u201d, \u201cNie ma Miko\u0142aja!\u201d \u2013 Down with Nicholas! The Emperor Nicholas I, the King of Poland, and the Tsar of all the Russias, was officially dethroned. But someone had to do the fighting, and the one-legged General Ignacy Led\u00f3chowski ended up commanding Poland\u2019s last stand at the Fortress of Modlin, which briefly became the capital before finally being crushed by overwhelming forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the anniversary of the November Uprising Jan Led\u00f3chowski shall be telling the story of two distant cousins who ended up in the middle of one of Poland\u2019s greatest dramas: Dethroning the Tsar and commanding Poland\u2019s Last Stand. On the 29th, \u201cNovember Night\u201d, 1830, Poland rose in another struggle for independence against the mighty Russian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n