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Lwów Eaglets

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20: 139:. While the Ukrainian minority enthusiastically supported the proclamation, the city's Jewish minority remained mostly neutral towards it and the city's Polish majority were shocked to find themselves under Ukrainian rule. Reacting to this military revolution, Poles rose up throughout the city. Polish high school students and scouts numbering only 200, organized a small pocket of resistance in a school at the western outskirts and managed to defeat battle-hardened Ukrainian veterans of the Great War with only 64 outdated rifles. After initial clashes, the defenders were joined by hundreds of volunteers, mostly boy scouts, students and youngsters. More than 1,000 people joined the Polish ranks in the first day of the fighting. 676: 181: 1092: 155:
within the city between 1 and 22 November 1918, and the following siege by the Ukrainian army between 23 November 1918 and 22 May 1919. With time, however, the term's application was broadened, and it is now used for all the young soldiers who fought in the area of
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In the final days of the Habsburg Monarchy, on 1 November 1918, Ukrainian soldiers from Austrian army units occupied Lemberg's public buildings and military depots, raised Ukrainian flags throughout the city and proclaimed the birth of a new
208:, a student at the Lviv Institute of Architecture, himself an Eaglet. Among the most notable Eaglets to be buried there was the 14-year-old Jerzy Bitschan, the youngest of the city's defenders, whose name became an icon of the 204:. The Cemetery of the Defenders held the remains of both teenaged and adult soldiers, including foreign volunteers from France and the United States. The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów was designed by 1123: 19: 1133: 480: 230:
from the province, the graves were destroyed in 1971, and the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów was turned into a municipal waste dump and then a truck depot.
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Also resting in the Eaglet's pantheon is the six-year-old Oswald Anissimo who was executed, together with his father, Michał, by Ukrainian militiamen.
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greatly weakened local opposition, and the cemetery was officially reopened in a joint Polish-Ukrainian ceremony on 24 June 2005.
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were a majority (61%), with Poles a significant minority (27%) and dominating the cities along with
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The last surviving Lwów Eaglet, Major Aleksander Sałacki (born 12 May 1904), died in
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were a prevailing ethnic group in the Kingdom overall, but in eastern Galicia,
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After the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, the Lwów Eaglets were interred at the
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Among them were many young volunteers, who became known as the
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for the Polish cause in the Polish-Ukrainian War and the
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to all men living in houses from where shots were fired.
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Wojciech Kossak
Polish Army Museum
Warsaw
Polish
Polish
child soldiers
Lwów
Ukrainian
Eastern Galicia
Polish-Ukrainian War
Lviv
Polish
Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
Emperor Karl
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Poles
Ukrainians
Jews
Roman Catholics
Ukrainian Greek Catholics
Ukrainian state
fights
Eastern Galicia
Polish-Bolshevik War
Polish-Ukrainian battle for Przemyśl

Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów
Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów
Lychakiv Cemetery

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