Ignacy Mycielski (general)
Ignacy Mycielski, Count of Dołęga (born January 17, 1784 in Zbąszyń, died April 22, 1831 in Warsaw) is a Polish general.
He was the son of the Auschwitz governor Jan Nepomucen and Anna of Garczynski, the grandson of the castellan of Poznan Maciej, the nephew of the governor of Inowrocław, Joseph and the governor of Lubiat and Stanisław. Ignacy Mycielski joined Napoleon's equestrian honor guard in November 1806, a year later promoted to lieutenant; He was an adjutant of Colonel Wincenty Krasinski (later General). He participated in campaigns in 1807 in Pomerania and in East Prussia. In 1809, he was promoted to Major, 1813, as colonel. He participated in subsequent Napoleonic campaigns, in 1814 after another campaign he remained for some time in France, waiting for an explanation of the status of the lands of the former Duchy of Warsaw. He returned to Warsaw in October 1815, in the newly formed Polish army he became commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment. In the autumn of 1820, appointed commander of the Kadet Corps in Kalisz, he remained in that post until the outbreak of the November Uprising. In September 1826 he was nominated by Tsar Nicholas I as Brigadier General.
He had a loyal officer's opinion of the tsar's family. After the outbreak of the insurrection, young Kalisz attacked his apartment. to destroy the portals of the tsar's family members. No matter what reservations Józef Chłopicki appointed Mycielski on January 4, 1831 the commander of the fortress Modlin (in place of General Kazimierz Małachowski). General Mycielski remained in office for just one month, rescued on 6 February due to progressive illness (probably tuberculosis). In April 1831 he died in Warsaw.
He did not set up a family. He was decorated many times. The Knight of the Order Virtuti Militari (1808), the Order of the Legion of Honor (1812) Stanislaw's first class (1829), Order of St. Anna II class. In 1830, he was awarded the Honorary Sign for 20 years of service.
He was a member of the Freemason's Box Office Français et Polonais. Bibliography
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