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Timeline 19 April 1809

Five acts of the battle in chronological order – from the first disposition at dawn to the signing of the Warsaw convention over the following days. Dates drawn from Sokolnicki's journals and Poniatowski's reports.

19 April · 5:00
Act I · Dawn over Falenty

The first disposition given by Prince Józef Poniatowski. Mist over the marshes and the Raszyn Ponds. The allied Polish-Saxon forces number roughly 14,000–15,500.
19 April · 12:00
Act II · First blood at Falenty Małe

The Austrian vanguard strikes from the direction of Nadarzyn. Sokolnicki's vanguard puts up resistance – farmsteads burn, and by midday more than 460 soldiers have fallen on both sides.
19 April · 15:00
Act III · The alder grove and Godebski

Cyprian Godebski, colonel of the 8th Line Infantry Regiment and poet (author of “A Poem to the Polish Legions”), falls to an Austrian ball in the boggy alder grove, four paces from the causeway.
19 April · 23:00
Act IV · The Raszyn causeway

The final withdrawal of the Polish army across the narrow causeway between the ponds, under fire from the Austrian artillery. Poniatowski personally commands the rearguard, preserving the structure of the army.
20–23 April
Act V · The Convention

A convention is concluded on handing over left-bank Warsaw on honourable terms – not a capitulation of the army, but the giving up of the capital to preserve the army. A three-level assessment: tactically undecided, strategically a defeat, politically and symbolically a success.

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Fifty-six digital objects — forty-five three-dimensional models and eleven gigapixel images from four museum collections. Thorvaldsen's equestrian monument, battle paintings by Suchodolski, Bacciarelli and Rosen, uniforms and weapons of eight Napoleonic regiments.

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