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The Greater Poland uprising of 1848 or Poznań Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1848 roku / powstanie poznańskie) was an unsuccessful military insurrection of Poles against forces of the Kingdom of Prussia, during the Revolutions of 1848.
This was the case for the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which had seen a series of uprisings before or after but not during 1848: the November Uprising of 1830–1831; the Kraków Uprising of 1846 (notable for being quelled by the anti-revolutionary Galician slaughter), and later on the January Uprising of 1863–1865.
The Battle of Miloslaw, which was the largest battle of the Greater Poland Uprising (1848), took place on April 30, 1848, near the town of Miloslaw, which at that time belonged to the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia. Polish rebel forces under Ludwik Mieroslawski clashed with Prussian Army unit of General Blumen. Enjoying numerical ...
Władysław Niegolewski (1819–1885) was a Polish liberal politician and member of parliament, an insurgent in the 1846 Wielkopolska Uprising, the 1848 Wielkopolska Uprising and the 1863 Uprising, and a cofounder (1861) of the Central Economic Society (TCL) and (1880) of the People's Libraries Society (CTG).
1848: Greater Poland Uprising. 1850: July 18: Kraków Fire of 1850 caused the destruction of approximately one tenth of the city. [9] [10] 1863: January 22: January Uprising begins. 1864: March 2: Abolition of serfdom in Congress Poland. 1873: The School of Fine Arts and Academy of Learning became active. 1879: The National Museum in Kraków ...
He was chosen as the leader of Greater Poland Uprising of 1846, but the leaders of the Polish Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) underground, including Mierosławski, were arrested by Prussian authorities. He was sentenced to death in December 1847 but was amnestied by Frederick William IV of Prussia during the Spring of Nations in March 1848.
He was sentenced by the Prussian authorities to 20 years of imprisonment in a fortress for taking part in the Greater Poland Uprising (1846). However, he was amnestied in 1848 and returned to Posen (Poznań), where he took part in the Greater Poland Uprising (1848) and joined various organisations supporting the independence of Poland ( Polish ...
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