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Coat of arms
  
Kierdeja

Died
  
1817 Rusinow

Mother
  
Elzbieta Oginska


Father
  
Michal Wielhorski

Noble family
  
Wielhorski

Name
  
Jozef Wielhorski

Jozef Wielhorski

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Józef Wielhorski (1759–1817) was a Polish general.

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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). As a protest for the French-Austrian peace, he returned to partitioned Poland, but in 1809, with the France again at war with Austria, he would join the pro-French Polish forces and became a general in the Duchy of Warsaw, where he also became a deputy minister of war. He remained in the Duchy during Napoleon's invasion of Russia; in its aftermath, in the Congress Poland, he was a Minister of War and a member of its senate.

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