Henryk Dembiński

Hungary state institutions National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1791–1864 ○ Natural causes

Polish general of the November Uprising who became commander-in-chief of the Hungarian revolutionary army in 1849

Born in 1791, he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, took part in most of Napoleon's eastern campaigns and fought at Leipzig in 1813. After Napoleon's fall he sat in the Sejm of Congress Poland. In the November Uprising of 1830 he led Polish forces with success, and in 1831, after his campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to divisional general and briefly served as Polish commander-in-chief. After the uprising he emigrated to France, where he became a prominent politician of Czartoryski's Hôtel Lambert. In the Hungarian revolution he commanded the Northern Army, and on 29 January 1849 Kossuth appointed him commander-in-chief, but hampered by Görgei's jealousy he resigned after defeat at Kápolna. After the battle of Temesvár and Kossuth's resignation he fled to the Ottoman Empire and entered the sultan's service; in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died in 1864.

Also known as: Dembinszky Henrik