Wojciech Chrzanowski was a Polish

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 general who participated in Napoleon's

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 Russia

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n campaign and in the battles of Leipzig

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, Paris, and Waterloo

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. After Napoleon's final defeat

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 he served in the national army of Poland

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, and was under Hans Karl von Diebitsch

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 in Turkey

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 in 1828/29. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari.

Chrzanowski was born on January 14, 1793 in Biskupice

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. He was made Governor of Warsaw

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 in 1831. He was suspected of being untrustworthy in his conduct with the Russia

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ns and was shunned by many of the people. Charles Albert( Carlo Alberto )

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, King of Sardinia, chose Chrzanowski, who then served as commander in chief of the Sardinia

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n forces in 1849. He and Girolamo Ramorino

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 were accused of treachery, and Ramorino was executed. Chrzanowski lived for a time in Louisiana

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 but died in Paris (February 26, 1861). He published several works in Polish

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.

Publications

• Chesney, Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828-29)