Second Partition of Poland
January 23, 1793
Russia and Prussia - without Austria, distracted by France - took another great slice of Poland. Russia gained most of Belarus and Ukraine; Prussia took Danzig and Thorn. A Polish patriotic uprising would follow the next year, led by Kosciuszko, the engineer who had helped fortify West Point for Washington.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.