Brigadier general (Polish: generał brygady Polish pronunciation: [ɡɛˈnɛraw brɨˈɡadɨ], abbreviated gen. bryg.) is the lowest grade for generals in the Polish...
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Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries. The rank is usually above a colonel, and below a major general or divisional...
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of Generał brygady was an equivalent of Major General rather than Brigadier General as the name suggested. In 1954, during the integration of the Polish...
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Adrian Carton de Wiart (redirect from Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook)
Carton de Wiart was promoted to temporary brigadier general and also appointed to the local rank of major general on 1 January. He was promoted to the substantive...
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responsible to the Armed Forces General Command (Poland). Brigadier General January Komański (1986–1987) Brigadier General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz (1987–1989)...
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Marian Sowiński (category Polish generals)
Gen. Marian Sowiński (born August 26, 1951 in Ruda, Poland) is a Polish general. Brigadier-General Marian Sowiński has been commander of the special forces...
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2008 – 17 XII 2010) gen. bryg. (Brigadier General) Mirosław Rozmus (17 XII 2010 - 11 VI 2015) gen. bryg. (Brigadier General) Piotr Nidecki (12 VI 2015 -...
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Konstanty Adam Czartoryski (category Polish generals)
who became colonel in 1809 in the Duchy of Warsaw and brigadier general in 1815 in Congress Poland. He commanded the 2nd battalion of grenadiers and 17th...
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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (redirect from General Bór-Komorowski)
March 1943 gained appointment as its commander, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was sympathetic to the right-wing, antisemitic National Party...
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Second Polish Republic Brigadier general Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1918) (acting) Major general Jan Wroczyński (1918–1919) Major general Józef Leśniewski (1919–1920)...
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Sławomir Petelicki (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland))
Brigadier General Sławomir Petelicki (13 September 1946 – 16 June 2012) was the first commander of the Polish special forces unit GROM from July 13, 1990...
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Casimir Pulaski (redirect from General Casimir Pulaski)
1777, on the orders of Congress, Washington commissioned Pulaski a brigadier general in the Continental Army cavalry. At that point, the cavalry was only...
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Kasia Smutniak (category Actresses from Greater Poland Voivodeship)
is a Polish-Italian actress. Smutniak was born in Piła, Poland. Her father, Brigadier General Zenon Smutniak, is a military pilot and served in the Polish...
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of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from...
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Mirosław Hermaszewski (redirect from Poland can into space)
level at the university. In 1988, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and continued to serve in high-ranking positions for the training...
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Józef Smaga (category Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania politicians)
1896 – 9 December 1982) was a Soviet and Polish aviator, Major-General and Brigadier General. Smaga was born in to a Polish working-class family. At a young...
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Stanisław Targosz (category Polish Air Force generals)
General Stanisław Targosz (23 July 1948, in Jaroszów, Poland – 4 August 2013, in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland) was a Polish general who was the commanding...
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Korea) General (Mexico) General (Nigeria) General (Pakistan) General (Poland), Generał General (Sri Lanka) General (Sweden), General General (Switzerland)...
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Niepodległości) is a national day in Poland celebrated on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the Second Polish...
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Polish cavalry brigade order of battle in 1939 (category Invasion of Poland)
Brigade (Baranowicze) under Brigadier General Władysław Anders Podlaska Cavalry Brigade (Białystok) under Brigadier General Ludwik Kmicic-Skrzyński Podolska...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko (redirect from Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko)
Congress promoted him to brigadier general. Upon returning to Poland in 1784, Kościuszko was commissioned as a major general in the Polish–Lithuanian...
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Korne (redirect from Korne, Poland)
in Chojnice County, Poland Korne, Kościerzyna County, a village in Kościerzyna County, Poland Radu Korne, Romanian Brigadier General during World War II...
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Omar Bradley (redirect from General Bradley)
permanent brigadier general, his effective date for brigadier general was backdated to 1 September 1943. The 1 September 1943, date for permanent brigadier general...
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(ORO) 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base (12.BBSP) Military Unit NIL "Brigadier General August Emil Fieldorf «Nil»" (JW NIL) SIGINT Reconnaissance Group of...
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manner: Northern Front (General Józef Haller): 1st Army (Major general Franciszek Latinik) 8th Infantry Division (Brigadier general Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki)...
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1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade (redirect from 1st Armoured Brigade (Poland))
18th "Żelazna" Mechanised Division, which is intended to help safeguard Poland's eastern border. The 1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade "Tadeusz Kościuszko" is...
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Northern Group of Forces (redirect from Soviet troops in Poland)
1990: brigadier general Mieczysław Dębicki October 1990 - February 1995: brigadier general Zdzisław Ostrowski The Soviet Army was stationed in Poland for...
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Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union after 1939 (category Invasion of Poland)
Brigadier General, arrested by NKVD in Lviv, 1940. He was presumably killed by the Soviets. Aleksander Kowalewski (general) [pl] - Brigadier General,...
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assistance from a British mission of soldiers and police officers led by Brigadier-General Gordon Macready, a new national police force was formed; this 'Polish...
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Charles Drury (category Canadian generals)
the rank of Brigadier-General in 1945. After the war, he headed the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration mission in Poland from 1945...
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