Poniatowski

JOSEPH ANTONY, PRINCE, (po-ne-ahtov's ke), a Polish general, B. at Warsaw, 1762, held the command of the Polish army in the rising against Ru ia, 1792-4. In 1806 he raised an army in support of Napoleon, in the belief that the latter meant to restore the independence of his native country. In 1812 he commanded a corps d'armée in the invasion of Ru ia, and in the year following became a marshal of France, and was drowned in the retreat from Leipzig, in which battle he was wounded. [s. 722]