Ambroży Mikołaj Skarżyński

Baron Ambroży Mikołaj Skarżyński of Bończa (1787–1868) was a Napoleonic officer, Chevalier de l'Empire and later in his career he would become a Polish general.

Ambrozy, along with his 3 other brothers, was educated initially by Monsieur Borne, a French expatriate living in Warsaw[12] and later at a Prussian dragoon academy.

He was an officer in the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard and he led the defense of Napoleon himself during the battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.

[14] For his bravery at Wagram he was awarded with a title of Chevalier de l'Empire in 1811 and a hereditary rent amounting to 500 francs a year[15] and for his achievements at Berry-au-Bac he received a hereditary title of a Baron of the French Empire in 1814, which was later confirmed by the Polish parliament in 1820.

In the battle of Slonim, the units of this regiment fell into a Russian ambush, from which only Ambroży Skarżyński's squadron survived.

In the Six Days' Campaign, he took part in the battles of Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Champaubert, Montereau, Reims, Berry-au-Bac, Arcis-sur-Aube, and Saint-Dizier.

[17] Skarzysnki resigned from the Napoleonic army in 1814, but returned to military service in 1830, when he joined a Uhlans regiment in the November Uprising in Poland.

In 1818 Ambrozy married Julia Sokolowska, daughter of the starosta of Nieszawa and he received Orłów estate as a dowry,[19] which included a vast amount of land and a large manor.

Skarzynski had 7 children with Julia, and their son, also called Jerzy, participated later in the Greater Poland Uprising (1848).