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Józef Wielhorski (1759-1817) was a Polish general.As an officer (rotmistrz) he fought in the Polish-Russian War of 1792 and later as a colonel in the Kościuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kościuszko sent him to revolutionary France with the goal of obtaining help from the Committee of Public Safety his requests for a French expeditionary corps were however futile. Under Napoleon he would become (in 1797) a general in the Polish Legions where he would be taken captive at the Siege of Mantua (1799).

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birth date
1759-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Horokhiv
death date
1817-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
Rusinów
parent
Michał Wielhorski (elder), El%C5%BCbieta_Ogi%C5%84ska

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