Latest / The Story of Poland: A Nation That Refused to Disappear — Fexingo History
The Polish Legions: Napoleon's Polish Soldiers and the Fight for a Nation
Before Poland reappeared on the map in 1918, its soldiers fought under foreign banners for over a century — none more famously than the Polish Legions that marched alongside Napoleon. This episode follows the legions from their formation in French-allied Italy in 1797, their blood-soaked campaigns in Haiti and the Peninsular War, to their tragic dissolution after Napoleon's fall. We meet General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, whose name lives on in Poland's national anthem; we look at the cynical bargain between Polish patriots and the French emperor, and the legacies of loyalty, sacrifice…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.