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Jan August Cichocki (1750–1795) was a Polish military officer and a general of 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 ...
, notable for his service in the 1794 Warsaw Uprising.


Biography

Thanks to a scholarship funded by Alois Bruhl, Cichocki studied artillery tactics in
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. Upon his return to Poland, he co-authored the military reforms of 1776–1779. At the same time until May 1792 he was the commanding officer of the Polish 5th Rifle Regiment (), after which he was the creator and the first commander of the Polish 15th Regiment of Foot. By 1794, Cichocki was a General. One of the commanders of the garrison of Warsaw during the
Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising (; ), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (), or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from ...
, he joined the Kościuszko's Uprising soon afterwards. On June 20,
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promoted him to the rank of General and nominated him to the post of the commander of the Narew river front, where however he showed little value as a front commander. Cichocki was dismissed to some unimportant post in Warsaw. He died November 18, 1795, and was buried at the Holy Cross cemetery in Warsaw.


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Polish generals Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1750 births 1795 deaths {{Poland-mil-bio-stub