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The Confederation of Bar: Poland's First Uprising
Before Kościuszko, before the partitions, there was the Confederation of Bar — a desperate, disorganised, and ultimately doomed rebellion that nonetheless lit the fuse of Polish resistance. In this episode, Lucas and Luna travel to 1768, when a group of noblemen, led by Józef Pułaski and his son Kazimierz, took up arms against the Russian-backed King Stanisław August Poniatowski. The confederates were Catholic, conservative, and fiercely independent — they opposed Russian influence, royal reform, and the growing tolerance of religious minorities, even as they fought for Polish sovereignty…
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