Konstanty Adam Czartoryski
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Prince Konstanty Adam Czartoryski (28 October 1777 – 24 April 1866) was a Polish
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who became colonel in 1809 in the
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and brigadier general in 1815 in
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. He commanded the 2nd battalion of grenadiers and 17th battalion of line infantry in the Duchy of Warsaw. He was a member of the Czartoryski noble family and became a brigadier general of the Kingdom of Poland under Duke Constantin. He was stationed in Prince Poniatowskis fifth corps of the Grandee Arme in Napoleons invasion of
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Constantin von Wurzbach Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author. Biography He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...

Czartoryski, Constantin Fürst
In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 1777 births 1866 deaths Polish generals Konstanky Adam Polish people of German descent Polish commanders of the Napoleonic Wars {{Poland-noble-stub