Roman Sołtyk

Roman Count of Sołtyk (* 1791 in Warsaw, † October 22, 1843 in St. Germain en Laye ) was a Polish general.

He was the son of the Reichstag Marshal Stanisław Sołtyk and Princess Karoline Sapieha, the polytechnic school attended in Paris, joined in 1807 as a lieutenant in the foot artillery of the former Grand Duchy of Warsaw and in 1809 took its successful defense against an attack Austria's part.

1812 appointed as adjutant of General Michal Sokol Nicki in the General Staff of Napoleon I, he commanded in the Battle of Leipzig, Sachsen and came through their transition into captivity by the Allies. Free again, he left the military service and opened an iron magazine in Warsaw. Since 1822, he participated in the secret political societies.

After the outbreak of the revolution of 29 November 1830 he went to Warsaw, was General Commander of four lying on the right bank of the Vistula provinces, here organized 47,000 man mobile National Guards and applied to the Reichstag, the deposition of the Emperor Nicholas and the declaration of the sovereignty of the people (21 January 1831).

During the siege of Warsaw by the Russians commander of the artillery in the city, he resisted zealously the surrender Krukowieckis and held firm until the last moment, then went with the army to Płock and took on a mission to England and France to a mediation of these powers nachzusuchen for Poland.

In exile he wrote the Précis historique, politique et militaire de la révolution du 29 novembre (Paris 1833, 2 ​​vols; German edited by Elsner, Stuttgart 1834) and Napoléon en 1812 (Paris 1836; German, Wesel 1837).

Works

• Poland, geographically and historically described. With a complete history of the years 1830 and 1831st From an eyewitness. Part 1-2. Stuttgart 1834.
• Poland 's heroes in the last struggle for freedom. Besides an outline of Polish history since its inception translated by the year 1830. Translated from the French and with notes about the country and people accompanied by Heinrich Elsner. Part 1-2. Stuttgart 1834.
• La Pologne, précis historique, politique et militaire de sa révolution, precede d'une esquisse de l' histoire de la Pologne, depuis son origine jusqu'en 1830. Paris 1833 ( 2 vols ).
• Napoléon en 1812. Mémoires historiques sur la campagne and Military de Russie. Paris 1836 ( p. 464 ).
• Napoléon en 1812. Mémoires du Polonais novel Sołtyk. [Reprint ]. Paris, LCV Services, 2006 (328 pp. )
• Relation of opérations de l' armée du Prince Joseph Poniatowski aux ordres pendant la campagne de 1809 en Pologne contre les Autrichiens. Paris 1841 ( p. 403 ).