Józef Dominik Korwin-Kossakowski (16 August 1771 in Vaitkuškis near

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– 2 November 1840 in

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), was a Polish–Lithuanian statesman and military commander, a participant of

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and a colonel of the

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. He used the

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. Kossakowski had been a member of the Four-Year Sejm and was awarded the Order of the White Eagle by King

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in 1793. He fought in the

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during the

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. During the

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he signed an access of the citizen of Vilnius voivodeship to the uprising. He married Ludwika Zofia Potocka, daughter of

Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki Count Stanisław Szczęsny Feliks Potocki (; 1751–1805), of the Piława coat of arms, known as Szczęsny PotockiE. Rostworowski, Potocki Stanisław Szczęsny (Feliks) herbu Pilawa, n:Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XXVIII, Wrocław–Wars ...

, they had four children, among them one son Stanisław Szczęsny Kossowski.

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1771 births 1840 deaths People from Vepriai

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