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Henryk Dembinski ( 1791‑ 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.

Dembinski was born January 16, 1791 in Strzalków near Kraków. In 1809 he entered the Army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the fall of Bonaparte he remained in Poland and became one of the members of the Sejm of the Congress Kingdom.

In the Polish November Uprising of 1830, he was a successful leader of the Polish forces. In 1831Events February- March Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops February 20 Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army. March 1 Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States, after his victorious campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to general dywizji and for a brief period became the Polish commander-in‑chief. He took part in the battles of Debe Wielkie and Ostroleka .

After the fall of the revolution in 1833Events January 3 Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. June 6 U. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. September 29 The infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mot he emigrated to FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents., where he became one of the prominent politicians of the Hôtel LambertHotel Lambert name for a palace on St. Louis Island in Paris, bought by the Czartoryskis in 1843 of a liberal-aristocratic faction of the Polish Great Emigration (Wielka Emigracja), which came into being after the collapse of the November Uprising 183031, a group of supporters of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.

In the 18481848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv. a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 California gold rush: Jame Hungarian insurrectionIn 1848, the Austrian Empire under the Habsburgs was confronted with the combined effect of economic, social class, and nationalities conflicts. Within its boundaries lived Austrian Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Romani, he was appointed the commanding officer of the Northern Army. After his successes he was soon promoted and Lajos Kossuth appointed him the Hungarian commander-in-chief. He was hampered by the jealousy of Gorgei and after the defeat of Kapolna, he resigned. After the Battle of Temesvar and Kossuth's resignation, he fled to Turkey, where he (together with many other prominent Polish officers) entered the service of sultan Mahmud II. However, in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died July 13, 1864.