Stanisław Brzóska

Stanisław Brzóska (30 December 1832, Dokudów Pierwszy - 23 May 1865, Sokołów Podlaski) 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 South 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.

References

Helena Maliszewska Stanisław Brzóska, in: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, vol. III Kraków 1937, pp. 69-70.

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Name	Brzoska, Stanislaw
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Date of birth	30 December 1832
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Date of death	23 May 1865
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