In January 1863, a number of teenagers from Warsaw fled to the Kampinos Forest, in order to escape draft to the Russian Army.

On 17 January Zygmunt Padlewski from Warsaw came to Kampinos, and in the following days, he organized a 1000-strong unit of teenagers, young men and local peasants, some of whom were armed only with sticks.

On the night of 11-12 April, two prisoners of Warsaw Citadel decided to escape, hoping that their guards would be drunk, celebrating Orthodox Easter.

Before their escape, Jaroslaw Dabrowski and Bronislaw Szwarce had asked for armed support from the Kampinos Forest, so on 12 April 1863, in the woods near the village of Zaborow, some 250 men were concentrated under the command of Major Walery Remiszewski.

Enjoying numerical superiority and being better armed, the 670-strong Russian unit destroyed the Polish party, killing 30 men (including Remiszewski).