About Leon Young de Blankenheim
Lived 1837 – 1863 (aged 25–26). Leon Young de Blankenheim was a military personnel.
Leon Young de Blankenheim (1837? – April 29, 1863 in Nowiny Brdowskie) was a French Army soldier, who was promoted to the rank of colonel of Polish rebels during the January Uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire on April 26, 1863.
De Blankenheim was a volunteer who came to Congress Poland to participate in the anti-Russian rebellion. In March 1863, he was named commandant of a rebel unit, created by the Działyński Committee from Poznań. De Blankenheim participated in fighting in Kujawy, and he was killed in action in Nowiny Brdowskie on April 29, 1863. His body was buried in a parish cemetery in Brdów, while a monument dedicated to him and other rebels was erected in Nowiny Brdowskie.
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Who was Leon Young de Blankenheim?
French Army soldier
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Leon Young de Blankenheim was born in 1837 in France.
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Leon Young de Blankenheim died on 29 April 1863 in Nowiny Brdowskie.
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Leon Young de Blankenheim was a military personnel.
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