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Henryk Dembiński

Born	(1791-01-16)16 January 1791 Strzałków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland
Died	13 July 1864(1864-07-13) (aged 73) Paris, France
Allegiance	Polish army
Rank	Commander-in-Chief
Battles	Napoleonic Wars Battle of Leipzig November Uprising Battle of Debe Wielkie Battle of Ostrołęka Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Battle of Kápolna Battle of Szőreg Battle of Temesvár
Awards	Légion d'honneur (1813)

Henryk Dembiński (Hungarian: Dembinszky Henrik; 16 January 1791 – 13 July 1864) was a Polish engineer, traveler and general.

Dembiński was born in Strzałków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 1809 he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the Napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte he remained in Poland and became one of the members of the Sejm of the Congress Poland.

In the Polish November Uprising of 1830, he was a successful leader of the Polish forces. In 1831, after his victorious campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to generał dywizji and for a brief period became the Polish Commander-in-Chief. He took part in the battles of Dębe Wielkie and Ostrołęka.

After the fall of the revolution in 1833 he emigrated to France, where he became one of the prominent politicians of the Hôtel Lambert, a group of supporters of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.

In the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he was appointed the commanding officer of the Northern Army. After his successes he was soon promoted and Lajos Kossuth appointed him the Hungarian commander-in-chief. He was hampered by the jealousy of Artúr Görgey and after the defeat at the Battle of Kápolna, he resigned. After the Battle of Temesvár (where he was commander until the arrival of Józef Bem) and Kossuth's resignation, he fled to Turkey, where he (together with many other prominent Polish officers) entered the service of sultan Mahmud II. However, in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died.

Notes

The family name is spelt Demhinski in some English sources.

References

^ Marx & Engels 1978, p. 600.

Sources

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (1978). Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works, Volume 9. International Publishers. ISBN 9780717805099.

v t e Commanders in chief of the November Uprising
Józef Chłopicki Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki Henryk Dembiński (incumbent) Ignacy Prądzyński Kazimierz Małachowski Maciej Rybiński Jan Nepomucen Umiński

v t e Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Belligerents	Austrian Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire
Pretext	April Laws
Major battles	Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom First battle Second battle Third battle Isaszeg Buda Pered Segesvár Szőreg Temesvár Kishegyes
Other events	1848–1849 massacres in Transylvania Vienna Uprising
Influence	Hungarian Declaration of Independence Surrender at Világos Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
Leaders for Austria	Ferdinand I of Austria Franz Joseph I of Austria Eduard Clam-Gallas Julius Jacob von Haynau Josip Jelačić Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein Franz Schlik Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
Leaders for Hungary	Lajos Batthyány Józef Bem János Damjanich Henryk Dembiński Antal Vetter Arisztid Dessewffy András Gáspár Artúr Görgey Richard Guyon György Klapka György Kmety Lajos Kossuth Vilmos Lázár Lázár Mészáros János Móga Alessandro Monti Ferenc Ottinger Mór Perczel István Széchenyi Bertalan Szemere
Leaders for Russia	Alexander von Lüders Fyodor Sergeevich Panyutin Grigory Yakovlevich Skariatin Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich Grigory Khristoforovich Zass Nikolai Fyodorovich Engelhardt Maksim Maksimovich Grotenhelm
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