Count Józef Hauke-Bosak (March 19, 1834, Saint Petersburg

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 – January 21, 1871) was a Polish

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 general

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 in the January Uprising

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, and commander of the Polish army in Lesser Poland, the closest collaborator of rebellion leader Romuald Traugutt

Romuald Traugutt

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. He fought many successful battles against the Russia

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ns in this region. He fled Poland after the Uprising collapsed in 1864. He died in the post of commander of brigade in the French army

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 at Vosges

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, during the Franco-Prussian war

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 in 1871.
He was also cousin to Julia Hauke.

See also

• Hauke-Bosak family
  Hauke-Bosak family
  The Hauke-Bosak are originally a German middle class family of allegedly Dutch origin, who after having settled in Poland at the end of the 18th century achieved great importance and titles of nobility in Congress Poland and the Russian Empire...