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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

    Nov 17, 2020 2 minutes

    By 1795, the vast Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania had been partitioned by their dominant neighbours Russia, Prussia and the Habsburg Empire. Poland effectively disappeared as a sovereign state for 123 years until it was restored at the end of the First World War. During its time under foreign control, there were a number of insurrections by Poles seeking the restoration of Polish autonomy.

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