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20: 43: 333:"The desires of Her Highness Empress of Russia , ally of Rzeczpospolita , are and were no other than by using her armies to return to Rzeczpospolita and Poles the freedoms, and especially security and happiness to all citizens" 209:: Marshal (head) of the Confederation. Sentenced to death, but never apprehended. Instead, on September 29, 1794, his portrait was hanged (see illustration). In 1795 he was rewarded by Catherine the Great with the Russian 177:
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
683: 134:, especially the provisions limiting the privileges of the nobility. The text of the founding act of the confederation was drafted by the Russian general 347:, 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". 357:"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." 296:
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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State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation
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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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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
Polish–Russian War of 1792

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