Jozef Miaczinsky

Joseph Miaczinski or Józef Miączyński (1743/1751–1793) was a Polish-Lithuanian general (chef de brigade) who joined the French Army of the North on 25 July 1792, the day Brunswick Manifesto was published.

Count Miaczinsky was born in Poryck or Selets (Volhynia) (today Drohobych Raion), 130 km north of Lviv; either in the year 1743 or in 1751.

[3] In an attempt to retain independence against the superior military might of the three great powers, some Poles joined together (in Podolia) to form the Bar Confederation.

[3] In 1768, he became the military leader of the army of the Bar Confederation and was made a marshal of Belz (a small city close to Ukrainian-Polish border).

In a controversy, Miaczinsky sided with Prince Radziwill, hetman of Lithuania and showed military talent; he led numerous skirmishes with Cossacks.

[5] He fortified several fortresses around Cracow (Tyniec, Lanckorona, Czestochowa) and formed a Confederate infantry detachment to protect the warehouses in Podolia.

In January 1771, the Russian detachments in Kraków Voivodeship were pushed back across the Vistula with heavy losses, and the whole nearby lands passed into Confederate hands.

From October till March he was in Sedan, Ardennes, commandant of the garrison, protecting the northeast of France with Arthur Dillon and General Valence.

[1] On 2 April, Dumouriez sent him to Orchies and he had lunch with Saint-Georges and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, then to Lille with 100 men cavalry to search for General Blaise Duval, to arrest the other commissioners/deputies and save the "treasure" (the bonds).