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During his service as the commander in chief of the Uprising, Dowbor-Muśnicki was responsible for almost complete reorganization of what was started as a para-military partisan force. He introduced conscription and mobilized eleven classes of recruits and reformed the partisans into divisions. During
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and Germany's promises of autonomy in occupied Poland stirred up long suppressed nationalist feelings among ethnic Poles living within the Russian Empire. Roughly 700,000 of them were serving in the Russian military by 1917 and they began forming a Polish army to fight for a "united and free Poland"
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in which the Poles managed to capture the airfield, the Greater Polish Army was the fourth force in the world in number of aeroplanes available. Dowbor-Muśnicki focused also on political matters and strived for political neutrality of the forces under his command, which made him demobilize some of
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In the immediate aftermath of the February Revolution, Dowbor-Muśnicki continued his military career and was appointed commander of the XXXVIIIth Corps on 28 April 1917 and made Lieutenant General on 5 May 1917. In the meantime, however, the
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that ended World War I in November 1918, Dowbor-Muśnicki helped organize a new Polish army around the disbanded 1st Corps and its officers. On 6 January 1919 he was nominated by the
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To some extent Dowbor-Muśnicki was conflicted with the Polish General Staff. Due to difficult diplomatic situation of Poland during the early stages of the
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to power, but Dowbor-Muśnicki was able to take advantage of the new government's weakness and general anarchy to form 3 divisions in
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his command, the Greater Polish Army grew from merely 20,000 to over 100,000 soldiers, well-armed and well-equipped. After the
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Polish nobility of evangelical reformed denomination. Dowbor received his basic education in the Nikolayevskiy Cadet Corps (
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negotiations on February 10, Dowbor-Muśnicki joined the German offensive against the Bolsheviks on February 18 and took
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as a staff officer with the First Siberian Corps. On 11 September 1906 he was appointed a senior staff adjutant of the
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The grave stone commemorating Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka and her sister Janina at the family tomb in Lusów cemetery.
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in the 1930s, while both daughters were executed during World War II. Agnieszka, who was an active member of the
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of 1926, he did not rejoin the army during the internal struggle. Instead, he focused on writing his memoirs,
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Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki remained the commander of the so-called Greater Poland Front until the outbreak of the
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appointed Dowbor-Muśnicki Commissar of the Petrograd Military District and on August 23 (
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declined to take the post of the commanding officer of the Ukrainian Front from General
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government to disband the Corps, which quickly led to clashes with the newly formed
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Dowbor-Muśnicki had two sons, Giedymin and Olgierd, and two daughters, Janina and
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on 26 October 1937 and was buried at the family tomb at the local cemetery.
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with the assent of the Provisional Government. In August, the newly formed
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Part of monument of Polish insurgents of Greater Poland Uprising in Poznań
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and on 21 April 1912 he was appointed to the same position with the
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12 January] 1918, Dowbor-Muśnicki refused an order by the
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and on January 16 he officially assumed his post, replacing Major
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In 1884 he joined the Russian military and graduated from the 2nd
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the leftist and rightist officers. He also disbanded the leftist
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