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People: Gnaeus Hosidius Geta
Topic: Greater Poland uprising (1794 )
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Greater Poland uprising (1794 )

Years: 1794 - 1794

The 1794 Greater Poland uprising is a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the Kingdom of Prussia, which had taken possession of this territory after the 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)