November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31[3] or the Cadet Revolution,[4] was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when young Polish officers from the military academy of the Army of Congress Poland revolted, led by Lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. Large segments of the peoples of Lithuania, Belarus, and Right-bank Ukraine soon joined the uprising. Although the insurgents achieved local successes, a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich eventually crushed the uprising.[5][6][7] The Russian Emperor Nicholas I issued the Organic Statute in 1832, according to which, henceforth Russian-occupied Poland would lose its autonomy and become an integral part of the Russian Empire. Warsaw became little more than a military garrison, and its university closed.[8]
For the uprising in Lviv, see November Uprising (Lemberg, 1918).The coat-of-arms of the November Uprising
![On 7 February 1831, the uprising adopted white and red, the tinctures (colours) of the Polish and Lithuanian coats of arms, as the national cockade of Poland[9]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/National_Cockade_of_Poland.svg/120px-National_Cockade_of_Poland.svg.png)
The armed struggle began when a group of conspirators led by a young cadet from the Warsaw officers' school, Piotr Wysocki, took arms from their garrison on 29 November 1830 and attacked the Belweder Palace, the main seat of the Grand Duke. The final spark that ignited Warsaw was a Russian plan to use the Polish Army to suppress France's July Revolution and the Belgian Revolution, in clear violation of the Polish constitution.
The rebels managed to enter the Belweder, but Grand Duke Constantine had escaped in women's clothing. The rebels then turned to the main city arsenal and captured it after a brief struggle. The following day, armed Polish civilians forced the Russian troops to withdraw north of Warsaw. That incident is sometimes called the Warsaw Uprising or the November Night. (Polish: Noc listopadowa).
In Popular culture[edit]
Frédéric Chopin's "Fantasy in F minor Op. 49" was completed and published in 1841, and many performers regard this work as an “Ode to the Fallen,” in which Chopin is reminiscing about family and friends killed or missing as a result of the 1831 rebellion. [15]
Aleksander Chodźko composed the song "Herby" about this uprising.[16] The remix created by Dawid Hallmann gained popularity.
General: