Colonel Berek Joselewicz: 5th Regiment Chasseurs á cheval, compagnie d'elite of the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw. Austrian Hussars: 2nd Regiment "Archduke Josef Anton" in large dress, Attila and Dolman light blue, chako madder, buttons yellow.
Joselewicz became an officer in the Polish Legion under General Jan Henryk Dabrowski and fought in Italy and Germany on the French side. After the Peace of Lunéville in February 1801, he requested to be discharged from the army, convinced that a liberation of Poland by the Polish Legion was hopeless. In 1803 he joined the Legion of Hanover Dragoons under French command and fought in France, Austria and Italy. After the establishment of the Duchy of Warsaw, he returned to Poland in 1807, where he commanded a cavalry squadron. On 5 May 1809 he was killed in action against hussars of the Austrian army at Kock, where a monument was erected in his honour.
Berek Joselewicz (17 September 1764 15 May 1809) was a Polish merchant of Jewish heritage and a colonel of the Polish Army during the Kosciuszko Uprising. Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history excluding Prince Potemkin's Israelovsky.
Group
Flat Figure(s)
Condition
unpainted
Scale
Size 30 mm
Material
Pewter-Alloy 55%Sn 39%Pb 6%Sb
Number of parts
6
Epoch
Napoleonic
Time
1809
Nationality/Location
Prussia
State
New
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