Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz

Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz: Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz ( _fr. Henry Jean-Witold Wolodkowicz) (1765-1825) was a prominent member of the Polish nobility and military officer, who after the partitions of Poland emigrated to France and aided the French Revolution, becoming an officer and cavalry commander in the French Army. From 1807 he served in the military of Duchy of Warsaw, a temporary Polish state created and allied with Napoleon Bonaparte. Member of the French La Grande Armée in the Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, he was taken prisoner by Russians during the battle of Smolensk in 1812 and deported to Siberia.

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