Jan Krukowiecki

In September 1794 Krukowiecki protested against the Austrian Habsburg monarchy response to the March–November 1794 Kościuszko Uprising by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and resigned his officer's commission.

At the battle of Leipzig he fought under general Sokolnicki but failed to secure the Halle Gate.

On 16 April the same year, during a banquet in honor of Russian and Polish officers, he stomped on Sokolnicki's toe.

He was subjected to a court martial but when Sokolnicki died in September 1816, Krukowiecki was merely removed from active army service and returned to Poland.

In August 1831 Krukowiecki became head of Polish government during the November Uprising, but had to surrender Warsaw to the Russians in September and was sent to Siberia.