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Józef Bem
Ottoman-Polish statesman (–)
Józef Zachariasz Bem (Hungarian: Bem József, Turkish: Murat Pasha; 14 March – 10 December ) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottomanpasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements.
Like Tadeusz Kościuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and in the French Invasion of Russia), Bem fought outside Poland's borders anywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.
Early life
He was born on 14 March in Tarnów[1] in Galicia, the area of Poland that had become part of the Habsburg monarchy through the First Partition in After the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw from the territories captured by Napoleon, he moved with his parents to Kraków, where after finishing military school (where he distinguished himself in mathematics) he joined the ducal forces as a f