Kościuszko Uprising

Kościuszko Uprising
	Part of the Polish–Russian Wars
	; Kościuszko Uprising, 1794
Date	24 March – 16 November 1794
Location	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Prussian Partition (Greater Poland and Kuyavia); Russian Partition
Result	Victory of the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia Third Partition of Poland; ; occupation of the remaining territory of the Commonwealth by Russian, Prussian and Austrian troops; Defeat of the rebels;
Territorial; changes	Third Partition of Poland; Disappearance of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Belligerents
Poland–Lithuania; (Kościuszko rebels)	Russian Empire; Kingdom of Prussia; Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg monarchy)
Commanders and leaders
Tadeusz Kościuszko Others Antoni Madaliński; Jakub Jasiński †; Tomasz Wawrzecki; Stanisław Mokronowski; Józef Zajączek; Józef Bielak †; Antoni Chlewiński; Jan Henryk Dąbrowski; Michał Wielhorski; Józef Poniatowski; Stefan Grabowski ; Eustachy Sanguszko; Romuald Giedroyć ;	Alexander Suvorov Others Nikolai Repnin ; Ivan Petrovich Saltykov ; Osip Igelström ; Wilhelm Derfelden ; Pavel Tsitsianov ; Alexander Tormasov ; Pyotr Bagration ; Valerian Zubov ; Levin August von Bennigsen ; Fyodor F. Buxhöwden ; Ivan Fersen ; Friedrich Wilhelm ; Johann Yorck ;

The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794, Second Polish War, Polish Campaign of 1794, and the Polish Revolution of 1794, was an uprising against the Russian and Prussian influence on Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland-Lithuania and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from external influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation.

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