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and set the stage for the Third Partition and the final dissolution of the Commonwealth in 1795. This outcome came as a surprise to most of the Confederates, who had wished only to restore the
694: 145:, especially the provisions limiting the privileges of the nobility. The text of the founding act of the confederation was drafted by the Russian general 358:, not blinded by the Prussian and royalist cabal, is convinced, that our Fatherland can only be saved by Russia, otherwise our nation will be enslaved". 368:"About past Poland and Poles . Gone is this country, and this name, as many others have perished in the world's history. I am now a Russian forever." 307:
Sentenced in absentia by the Supreme Criminal Court to death and the confiscation of his estates. Executed in effigy on 29 September 1794.
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After Stanisław Poniatowski's abdication and the destruction of the Commonwealth, Szczęsny Potocki said:
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is synonymous with treason. These meanings still function in the Polish language up to the present day.
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Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries
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and had expected that the overthrow of the May 3rd Constitution would achieve that end.
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One of the founders of the Targowica Confederation, Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki:
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Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanisaw August Poniatowski, 1732–1798
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The forces of the Targowica Confederation defeated the troops loyal to the
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1792 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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From the Establishing Act of the Targowica Confederation:
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Confederation of Targowica

Hanging in effigy
Warsaw
Warsaw Uprising (1794)
Jan Piotr Norblin

Vasili Stepanovich Popov
Polish
[kɔnfɛdɛˈrat͡sjatarɡɔˈvit͡ska]
Lithuanian
confederation
Polish and Lithuanian
magnates
Saint Petersburg
Catherine II
Constitution of 3 May 1791
Polish–Russian War of 1792
Second
Third Partitions of Poland
Constitution of 3 May 1791
Great Sejm
Vasili Stepanovich Popov
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin
Holovanivsk Raion
Kirovohrad Oblast
Ukraine
declaration of war
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Stanisław August Poniatowski

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