Stanisław Brzóska

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Stanisław Brzóska (1832-1865) was a Polish priest, general, supreme leader of the Polish insurgency and the last partisan of the January Uprising. He commanded the Polish detachment in the Podlasie region, defeating the Russian army in many skirmishes. He was captured eventually in April 1865, sentenced to death by the Russians and hanged publicly in Sokołów Podlaski in the presence of a crowd of 10,000 people.

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