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252) Kosciuszko was defeated, and, severely wounded, was himself

taken prisoner by the Russians. The final episode of the war was

the fall of Warsaw. Suvorov, the Russian commander, captured by

storm Praga, a suburb of the city, and gave over its inhabitants

to massacre (pp. 3, 324). In the following year, 1795, the

remnant of the Polish kingdom was divided among the three allies.

Even now not all the Poles despaired of their country's fate. The

idea arose of transferring to France the headquarters of Polish

interests and of forming bodies of Polish troops that should

fight for France against the common enemies of France and Poland

and thereby prepare themselves for service in the restoration of

Poland. The leader of this movement, and the most noted general

of the new Polish Legions, was Jan Henryk Dombrowski, who had won

fame in the war of 1794. The Legions' first field of activity was

in northern Italy, where they supported the struggle of Lombardy

for independence. Here arose (1797) the famous Song of the

Legions, "Poland has not yet perished, while we still live" (pp.

3, 97, 325, 326). In the next year (1798) Dombrowski aided the

French in the capture of Rome, and Kniaziewicz was put in command

of the garrison on the Capitol (p. 31). In 1800 a new Polish

force won laurels at Marengo and Hohenlinden (p. 286).