Fryderyk de Melfort

Fryderyk de Melfort (1763 - 1797)[1] was a Polish military officer.[2] A soldier of the Royal Foot Guards Regiment, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (1794), for which on May 21 of that year he was promoted to the rank of Major. After that he remained in Polish formations and took part in the ill-fated expedition of Brigadier Joachim Deniska in Moldavia. Taken prisoner by the Austrians in the battle of Dobronowice of June 30, 1797, he was executed on July 7 of that year.

See also

  • Feliks Melfort

References

  1. ^ Bajer, Peter Paul (2 March 2012). Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group. BRILL. p. 307. ISBN 978-90-04-21247-3.
  2. ^ Polski slownik biograficzny: Maria Józefa-Mieroszewski Krzysztof (in Polish). Skład główny w księg, Gebethnera i Wolffa. 1935. p. 405.


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