Major Henryk Dobrzański (22 June 1897 – 30 April 1940), also known by his nom-de-guerre "Hubal," was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan.

[1][2][3] Known as Hubal, he has been described as Poland's last "Romantic Hero" and compared to figures such as Robin Hood, William Tell, Till Eulenspiegel and Davy Crockett.

[5] His unit was to enter combat as a second-line formation, but fast advances of the Wehrmacht made the completion of training impossible.

Wacław Przeździecki, the commander of the defense of the Grodno area, ordered all his troops to escape to neutral Lithuania.

[5] It got surrounded by the Red Army in the Biebrza river area and suffered serious casualties, but managed to break through the enemy defenses.

[citation needed] After that, Lieutenant Colonel Jerzy Dąbrowski, the commander of the regiment, decided his unit should disband.

[citation needed] On 6 October the Battle of Kock ended the resistance of the last major unit of the Polish Army.

The German authorities responded with reprisals against the civil population, burning several villages and killing an estimated 1200 civilians in what is known in the Polish historiography as the Hubal pacifications.

[8][9] Due to these reprisals local sentiment turned against Hubal's unit, and the newly formed ZWZ became concerned that this would inhibit their ability to recruit.

[11] Hubal and his unit have been a subject of a number of literary works, including Melchior Wańkowicz's Hubalczycy as early as 1946.

Hubal has been described as Poland's last "Romantic Hero" and compared to figures such as Robin Hood, William Tell, Till Eulenspiegel and Davy Crockett..[4] In 1949 Dobrzański's son, Ludwik, emigrated to England and became a property developer.

In 1966 Henryk Dobrzański was posthumously awarded the Golden Cross of the Virtuti Militari and promoted to colonel.