Józef Dwernicki

Lithograph by Józef Dwernicki.

Józef Dwernicki was a Polish general born in Warsaw on March 19, 1779 and died in Lopatyn (present-day Ukraine) on September 22, 1857. He served in the military service of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was granted the Legion of Honor and 1830 took part in the November Insurrection in Poland, taking control of a cavalry division.

On February 14, 1831 participated with General Teodor Geismar in the Battle of Stoczek against the Russian armies sent to quell the Polish insurrection. The Russians were trapped between Marshal Dybich's artillery and Dwernicki's cavalry, forcing their retreat. It was the first Polish victory in the war against the Russians and managed to raise the morale of the insurgents, but failed to stop the military superiority and resources of the Russian army.

When the insurrection failed, she went into exile in France, where she remarried Marie-Louise Aline Broc, daughter of the painter Jean Broc. He later traveled to London. In 1848, in full revolutionary effervescence and accompanied by his wife and father-in-law, he returned to Poland.

wiki