Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)

The Polish Legion ( fr. Légions Polonaises ) were the 1796 by Dabrowski in Milan and in 1798 by General Kniaziewicz in Strasbourg established with the approval of the French government troops.

The Polish Legion fought 1798-1800 with distinction in Italy. Built in Strasbourg Legion was later sent to Santo Domingo in the Caribbean, to enforce the re-establishment of slavery in the French colony militarily. She was there almost completely wiped out as a result of the climate and the ongoing battles with the insurgents.

Another Polish Legion was living in 1854 by the British government in the UK and in France, Poland formed under Count Zamoyski with two cavalry regiments. She took in the army corps of General Vivian part in the Crimean War and was adopted into the Ottoman service after the peace treaty almost completely.

In France, a Polish legion in the strength of a battalion of infantry and a squadron of lancers was 1870 Jarosław Dabrowski built in the Vosges army of Garibaldi.