MEMORIES OF JENERAL ANTONIJI JEZIORANSKI publ. 1880

MEMORIES

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL ANTONI JEZIORAŃSKI

from 1848 to 1863

Lviv 1880, published by K. Lukaszewicz Bookstore, pp. 247, format 13x19cm

Antoni Jeziorański, a.k.a. Antoni Jovanovic (born June 13, 1821 in Warsaw, died February 16, 1882 in Lviv) - Polish general of the January Uprising.

He reportedly came from a Frankist family. He was the uncle brother of Jan.

In May 1848, on hearing of the Spring of Nations, he crossed into Galicia. In October he became an instructor of the National Guard in Krosno. Threatened with arrest, he made his way to Hungary, where he joined a riding regiment of the Polish Legion. During the Hungarian uprising, he took part in the campaign in Slovakia. After the battle of Temesvar he escaped to Turkey. He began his service in the Turkish army. He took the position of conservator and renovator of the Belgrade fortress. He took part in the Crimean War, serving in Władysław Zamoyski's unit. In 1859 he arrived in Warsaw, where, however, he was arrested by the Russians. Freed on bail, he was arrested again in 1862 and imprisoned in the 10th Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel.

On January 14, 1863, he was appointed war chief of the Rawskie province. In the forests near Jeruzal, he conducted a concentration of his unit in a force of 400 men. On February 4 he made a successful strike on Rawa Mazowiecka, capturing Russian barracks, obtaining weapons and taking prisoners. On February 22 he received orders to subordinate himself to General Marian Langiewicz. Along the way he incorporated smaller insurgent parties into his unit and fought skirmishes with Russian troops. He took part in the Battle of Pieskowa Skała and the Battle of Skała. As an opponent of Langiewicz's dictatorship and in disagreement with his commander, he crossed the Austrian border. In March he was appointed war chief of the Lublin province. In April, at the head of a detachment of 800, he entered the Kingdom of Poland. On May 1 he beat the Russians in a several-day battle near Kobylanka. However, his grouping was weakened by high losses, and Jeziorański himself went to Galicia, where he hid in Countess Konarska's house in Chrevet. He was arrested by the Austrian police. Released in June 1865, he left for Paris. In 1873 he settled in Lviv.

From his marriage to Natalia, née Horbowski, contracted in 1860, he left a daughter Maria.

He isburied in Lychakiv cemetery.

Source: www.wikipedia.org

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