F-YEAH HISTORY

Hanging of traitors in effigie during Kościuszko Uprising, painting by Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine c. 1794 The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Commonwealth of Poland and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation.

Plötzensee execution room with guillotine in the foreground and gallows behind, Germany

Kościuszko Uprising began with Tadeusz Kościuszko taking the oath, Kraków 1794 The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation.