2 X POLAND HERO - 1800'S - PHOTOS - JASINSKI - SOWINSKI
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2 X POLAND HERO - 1800'S - PHOTOS -JASINSKI - SOWINSKI. Jakub Jasiński (1759–1794) was a Polish-Lithuanian general and poet. He participated in the War in Defence of the Constitution in 1792, was an enemy of the Targowica Confederation and organized an action against its supporters in Vilnius . He was killed in the Battle of Praga in 1794.A graduate of the Warsaw -based Szkoła Rycerska , with time he became the tutor of engineering at his alma mater . He fought with distinction in the War in Defense of the Constitution of 1792. After the king joined the Targowica Confederation he remained loyal to the new authorities. In 1789 he became the commanding officer of the Engineering Corps for Lithuania.During the Kościuszko's Uprising of 1794 he was among the most prominent members of the radical wing of the Polish Jacobites and at the same time a successful military commander of partisan forces in the area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In April of that year he liberated the city of Vilnius by leading a successful uprising there. Initially supported by Tadeusz Kościuszko and made the commander in chief of all the partisan forces in the former Grand Duchy, he managed to defeat numerous Russian garrisons in the area. However, his radical republican beliefs brought him into conflict with the state authorities and by the beginning of June
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