Brigadier general (

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

: ''generał brygady'' , abbreviated ''gen. bryg.'') is the lowest grade for generals in the

Polish Army The Land Forces () are the Army, land forces of the Polish Armed Forces. They currently contain some 110,000 active personnel and form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military histor ...

(both in the land forces and in the Polish Air Force). Depending on the context, it is equivalent to both the modern grade of major general and the grade of brigadier general (mostly in historical context). The symbols of the grade are the ''general's wavy line'' and a single star, featured on both the

rogatywka ''Rogatywka'' (; sometimes translated as '' peaked cap'') is the Polish generic name for a peaked, four-pointed cap used by various Polish military formations throughout the ages. It is a distant relative of its 18th-century predecessor, th ...

(the military cap) and the sleeves of the dress uniform and above the breast pocket of the field uniform.

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Military ranks of Poland Polish generals {{mil-rank-stub de:Brigadegeneral