Kościuszko Uprising
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Was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Prussian territories in Poland. The revolt was caused by the first two partitions of Poland.
Chronology
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On 24 March 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko, a veteran of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, announced a general uprising of Poland-Lithuania against Russia and Prussia.
March 1794: Tadeusz Kościuszko, a veteran of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, announced the general uprising in a speech in the Kraków town square and assumed the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
April 1794: On 17 April in Warsaw, the Russian attempt to arrest those suspected of supporting the insurrection and to disarm the weak Polish garrison of Warsaw under Gen. Stanisław Mokronowski by seizing the arsenal at Miodowa Street resulted in an uprising against the Russian garrison of Warsaw.
June 1794: The Prussian army captured Kraków unopposed.
August 1794: In 1794, during the Kościuszko Uprising, the opposition in Lithuania, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, was crushed by Russian forces. Vilnius, also known as Wilno, was besieged and eventually capitulated to the Russian military occupation.
October 1794: A Polish corps under Jan Henryk Dąbrowski captured Bydgoszcz and entered Pomerania almost unopposed.
November 1794: On November 4 the joint Russian forces started the Battle of Praga, after the name of the right-bank suburb of Warsaw where it took place. After four hours of brutal hand-to-hand fighting, the 22,000-strong Russian forces broke through the Polish defences and Suvorov allowed his Cossacks to loot and burn Warsaw. Approximately 20,000 were murdered in the Praga massacre.
November 1794: The commander of the Kościuszko Uprising, Tomasz Wawrzecki, surrendered to Russian and Prussian forces Radoszyce.
April 1794: In 1794, Jakub Jasiński led an uprising in Wilno (Vilnius) against the Russian Empire.
April 1794: By early April the Polish forces concentrated in the lands of Lublin and Volhynia,.
Was the third an final partition of Poland-Lithuania whose immediate reason was the Kościuszko Uprising against Prussia and Russia. The Polish-Lithuanian remaining territories were partitioned between the Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia and Russia. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist.
October 1795: Third partition of Poland.
October 1795: On January 3, 1795, Catherine II and the Habsburg Emperor Franz II signed the partition treaty, which Prussia joined on October 24. Accordingly, the three states divided the rest of Poland along the Memel, Bug and Pilica rivers.
October 1795: Third partition of Poland: Russian annexation of the rest of Masovia with Warsaw (organized into the province of New East Prussia) and a part of Lesser Poland (organized into the province of New Silesia). Also the city of Tauroggen was lost to the Russian Empire.
October 1795: On January 3, 1795, Catherine II of Russia and the Habsburg Emperor Franz II signed the partition treaty, which Prussia joined on October 24. Accordingly, the three states divided what remained of Poland along the Memel, Bug and Pilica rivers.
