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Isidor Borowski (1776 -1838), who was this man?!
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    Posted: 25-Nov-2009 at 07:08
He was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1776, his mother was a Jew and his father was a Polish nobleman, he served as a soldier under Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830) and fought the Spanish to obtain independence for South American countries, then he helped Muhammad Ali (1769-1849), Albanian founder of modern Egypt, and finally he became a great general under Abbas Mirza (1789 - 1833) and led a large Persian army to capture Herat in Modern Afghanistan but was killed and buried in the Polish cemetery of Tehran. He is already considered as a Persian hero for Iranians!
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Who was this man?

First of all it appears that he was Jewish! See;

http://books.google.com/books?id=deBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR21&lpg=PR21&dq=Isidor+Borowski&source=bl&ots=imrgtgnhBX&sig=kuK4_A17oPYcKO_Zlh0Ydg0e2O8&hl=en&ei=ykkNS9hekZC2B7-QvdwC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Isidor%20Borowski&f=false
http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/
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Really?
 
Thank you Cyrus. I have never heard about this my countryman.
 
After Poland lost independence in the end of 18th century many Polish officers had to leave Poland and served in many armies all over the world. We had Polish generals almost everywhere in the 19th century but I have never heard that there was also one in Iran. The most famous were the 2 who served in american war for independence: Pulaski and Kosciuszko. We had also some general Bem who was commander of Hungarian army during Hugarian uprising against Austria. Prince Poniatowski became marshall of France during napoleonic wars. Ludwik Mierosławski was military commander of uprising in Sicilly and later in Germany commander in chief of Baden - Palatinate. Generals Jaroslaw Dabrowski and Walery Wroblewski commanded defence of Paris during Paris Commune and some Polish generals converted into muslim religion and became general in the Ottoman army. Frederic Engels wrote that Poland is a soldier of international revolution.
"I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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He was a strange man, he could be a Jewish but his wife was a Georgian Christian and his son seems to be a Muslim, he was an important man in four different continents!
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Posts: 2537 		  Quote Mosquito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Nov-2009 at 08:23
Nah, i found info about him. He was fighting in Polish uprising against Russia and during napoleonic wars he was an officer of Polish army in Polish Legions in Italy. He has reorganised Persian army into french napolenic model. He was a Pole of Polish - Jewish origin.
 
 
I have also found that Izydor Borowski died in 1838 commanding Persian army that was trying to take city of Herat. In 1850 his son Antoni Borowski, who also became persian general finally took Herat.
 


Edited by Mosquito - 25-Nov-2009 at 08:35
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I found another info in Iranica: http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/sup/Borowski.html
 
BOROWSKY,ISIDORE, (b. Vilna, Poland ca. early 1770/d. Herat, ca. 1838,) Polish officer in the Persian army. His brother was said to be a well-known poet, perhaps the literary historian Leon Borowsky (1784-1846). According to family traditions (Tavakkoli, pp. 26-27), Borowsky fled to England, “when the Russians attacked Poland, together with the king of the country,” which presumably refers to the third partition of Poland in 1795. Bāmdād writes that Borowsky left Poland in 1793 (Bāmdād, II, p. 129). ...
 
It says: Later he served in South Africa and India, before coming to Persia on the instigation of the prince regent Abbās Mirzā.


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Borowski left Poland after failed Kosciuszko uprising which is described here:
 
 
 
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The relations between Poles and Persians are interesting and somehow tragic, do you know about "Soldier Bear"?
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Posts: 2537 		  Quote Mosquito Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Nov-2009 at 14:10

I thought they Polish soldiers brought the bear from Siberia but i found in Wikipedia that they got him from Iran

 
Bear soldier movie:
 
 
 
 
 


Edited by Mosquito - 25-Nov-2009 at 15:29
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