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"It was he who at Hohenlinden,193 when General Richepanse, half

vanquished, was already preparing to retreat, not knowing that

Kniaziewicz was on the way to his rescue-it was he, Jacek, called

Robak, who amid spears and swords brought to Richepanse from

Kniaziewicz letters announcing that our men were attacking the

enemy in the rear. Later, in Spain, when our uhlans had taken the

fortified ridge of Somosierra,194 he was wounded twice by the

side of Kozietulski! Following this, as an emissary, with secret

instructions, he traversed various quarters of our land, in order

to watch the currents of popular feeling and to found and build

up secret societies. Finally, at Soplicowo, in the home of his

fathers, while he was paving the way for an insurrection, he

perished in a foray. The news of his death arrived in Warsaw just

at the moment when His Majesty the Emperor deigned to bestow on

him as a reward for his former heroic deeds the knightly badge of

the Legion of Honour.