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    Polish Legions (Napoleonic era) - Wikipedia

    Timeframe and numbers

    Among historians there is a degree of uncertainty about the period in which the Legions existed. Magocsi et al. notes that … See more

    Origins

    After the Third Partition of Poland (1795), many Poles believed that revolutionary France, whose public opinion was very sympathetic to the ideals of the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791, would come to Poland's ai… See more

    Operational history

    The Polish soldiers serving in the Dąbrowski Legion were granted Cisalpine citizenship and were paid the same wage as other troops. They were allowed to use their own unique Polish-style uniforms, with some Fren… See more

    Assessment and remembrance

    In analyzing the creation of the Polish Legions, many historians have argued that Napoleon used the Poles as a source of recruits and had little desire to invest in the re-creation of the Polish state. Among the most notabl… See more

    Further reading

    List based on the compilation of Polish Genealogical Society of America
    • Jan Pachonski, Reuel K. Wilson. Poland's Caribbean Tragedy: A Study of Polish Legions in the Haitian War of Independen… See more

    Fiction

    • Michael Large, Song of the Legions, 2011, a novel about the origin of the Polish Legion, ISBN 978-0-9568853-0-2. See more

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