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Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 13:19
Item n°197213721
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Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 19:07
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1948 UPRISING (REVOLUTION) BLACK PRINT NEVER HINGED MINT (NO GUM AS ISSUED) IN CONJUNCTION WITH A BOOK TO COMMEMORATE THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH POST OFFICE. THE ITEM ON SALE IS THE BLACK PRINT ON ITS OWN AND NOT THE COMPLETE BOOK. THE BLACK PRINT WAS PRINTED BY THE POLISH NATIONAL PRINTING WORKS IN KRAKOW.
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The stamp depicts General Dembinski and General Bem from the period known as Spring of Nations (Polish: Wiosna Ludow).
The Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 or Poznan Uprising was an unsuccessful military insurrection of Poles against Prussian forces, during the Spring of Nations period. While the main fighting was concentrated in the Greater Poland region, fights also occurred in other part of the Prussian partition of Poland, and protests were held in Polish inhabited regions of Silesia.
Jozef Zachariasz Bem (Hungarian: Bem Jozsef, Turkish: Murat Pasha; March 14, 1794, Tarnow – December 10, 1850, Aleppo) was a Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms. Like Tadeusz Kosciuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) and Jan Henryk Dabrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and in the French Invasion of Russia), Bem fought outside Poland´s borders for the future of Poland; anywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.
Henryk Dembinski (January 16, 1791 – July 13, 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.
Dembiński was born in Strzalkow. In 1809 he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the Napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte he remained in Poland and became one of the members of the Sejm of the Congress Poland.
In the Polish November Uprising of 1830, he was a successful leader of the Polish forces. In 1831, after his victorious campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to general of a division and for a brief period became the Polish Commander-in-Chief. He took part in the battles of Debe Wielkie and Ostroleka.
After the fall of the revolution in 1833 he emigrated to France, where he became one of the prominent politicians of the Hôtel Lambert, a group of supporters of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
In the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he was appointed the commanding officer of the Northern Army. After his successes he was soon promoted and Lajos Kossuth appointed him the Hungarian commander-in-chief. He was hampered by the jealousy of Artur Gorgey and after the defeat at the Battle of Kapolna, he resigned. After the Battle of Temesvar (where he was commander until the arrival of Jozef Bem) and Kossuth´s resignation, he fled to Turkey, where he (together with many other prominent Polish officers) entered the service of sultan Mahmud II. However, in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died.
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