POLISH LEGIONS

'Polish Legions' (''Legiony Polskie'') may refer to, in chronological order:

Polish Legion in Turkey, formed around 1770s, as part of the Confederation of Bar

Polish Legions in Italy, created by Henryk DÄ…browski during the Napoleonic Wars

Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848

Wysocki's Legion and Bem's Legion forming Polish Legions in Hungary during the same year

Polish Legions in World War I

Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division

Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division

Polish 3rd Legions Infantry Division

Polish 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment

58th New York Infantry aka the Polish Legion, lead by Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski in the U.S. Civil War

Polish Legions Clan Polish Legions
The most famous of those are the Italian-Napoleonic ones and the First World War ones.

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Further reading



Bohdan Urbankowski, ''Józef Piłsudski: marzyciel i strateg'' (Józef Piłsudski: Dreamer and Strategist), Wydawnictwo ALFA, Warsaw, 1997, ISBN 8370019145, p. 155-165 (chapter IV 'Legions', subchapter I 'Dzieje idei' (History of an idea))

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Polish Army

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