WRITING DROP
AFTER GENERAL
MAURICH HR. HAUKE
published from the manuscript and preceded by a preface by
Alexander REMBOWSKI
with 6 drawings
Warsaw 1905, Nakładem Księgarni E.Wende i S-ka, str. [6], LXI, 420, format 14x21,5cm
Jan Maurycy Hauke coat-of-arms Bosak (born October 26, 1775 in Seifersdorf, Saxony, died November 29, 1830 in Warsaw) - count, artillery general of the Polish Army of the Kingdom of Poland, presiding minister at the Government War Commission of the Kingdom of Poland in 1816-1829, senator-voivode of the Kingdom of Poland, member of the Supreme Examination Commission at the Council of State of the Congress Kingdom in 1830.
In the Polish army since 1790 with the rank of second lieutenant - he studied at the artillery school in Warsaw. On March 15, 1791 he was promoted to lieutenant, and on August 3, 1794. - to the rank of captain. He participated in the war with Russia in 1792 and the Kosciuszko insurrection, in which he took part, among other things, in the defense of Warsaw. After the fall of the insurrection, he remained out of the army and helped his father as a geometry teacher at his private school.
In 1798. Hauke joined the Polish Legions in Italy and served in the artillery. Among other things, he fought in the defense of Mantua, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians. Later he served in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw, including briefly as chief of staff of the army. Subsequently, he held the following positions: deputy commander of the 3rd Legion (division), brigade commander in General Jozef Zajączek's division in the 1809 campaign, commander of the Zamosc Fortress in the 1813 campaign, where he became famous for his prolonged and heroic defense and obtained honorable terms of surrender. He was promoted to the rank of colonel on December 20, 1806. Brigadier general since December 27, 1807, major general since February 3, 1813 - as commander of the Zamosc fortress.
From January 22, 1815, he served in the Polish Army of the Congress Kingdom, holding the positions of quartermaster general of the army, commander of the artillery and engineering corps, state counselor, director general at the Government War Commission and deputy minister of war. From 1816, after the resignation of General Jozef Wielhorski, he headed the Ministry of War.
On September 3, 1826 he was promoted to general of artillery and, together with his brothers Louis August (1779-1861) and Joseph (1790-1837), received an indigene with the Bosak coat of arms (in a blue-gold field a golden Flemish lion walking to the right with a black bosak in its paw). From 1829 he was count and senator of the Kingdom of Poland. These promotions were a reward for loyalty and zeal in carrying out the orders of Grand Duke Constantine. In later years, his brothers also received count titles. He was a member of the Supreme Court Martial, in lieu of the Sejm Court, appointed to try those accused of belonging to the National Freedmen.
A staunch opponent of the November Uprising. He died on November 29, 1830 at the hands of the insurgents (he fell under the right lion in front of the Namiestnikowski Palace in Warsaw) in front of his wife (she died a year later, in 1831) and younger children, who were taken into the legal custody and upbringing of Czar Nicholas I. Hauke, riding his horse beside his wife's carriage from his official apartment in the Saxon Palace, encountered a group of cadets walking from Nowy Świat Street near the Namiestnikowski Palace. Seeing him, the insurgents called out, "General, lead us!" but Hauke began to make a speech in which he called their enterprise foolish and urged them to return to barracks. Shots rang out and Hauke fell dead. Tsarist orders and decorations were stripped from the corpse, leaving only Polish and French ones. Upon inspection of the corpse, 19 bullet wounds were counted.
Uncommon!
HARDCOVER IN DECORATIVE FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, SPINE WITH RAISED GILT JOINTS, EMBOSSED AND GILT, GILT NAPOLEONIC MOTIFS IN THE FIELDS: LAUREL WREATH AND "N", DECORATIVE GILT BORDERS ON THE FACES; DECORATIVE COVER MADE OF HAND-DYED MARBLED PAPER, PAGE EDGES MARBLED IN THE SAME WAY. COVER INTERIORS BORDERED IN GILDED SLIPCASE.
BDB condition-/ an annotation to the table of contents, NICE piece.
