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Poland, Second Partition of

Years: 1792 - 1793

The 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is the second of three partitions that ends the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.

The second partition occurs in the aftermath of the War in Defense of the Constitution and the Targowica Confederation of 1792 and is carried out by the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.

It is ratified by the Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1793.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)