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A cross standing at the corner of the 3 Maja and Olszowa streets in Truskaw, in the alleged resting place of major Walery Remiszewski (aka “Kurza Łapka”), a former captain of the tsarist army and a veteran of the conflicts in the Caucasus. After the January uprising broke out at the beginning of 1863, in the fear of impressment to the Russian army, young people from Warsaw ran towards the area of the Kampinos Forest. During the Easter celebrated by the Russian Orthodox between 11th and 12th April, on a local grange, stationed a unit formed by major Remiszewski with the force of 240 people (called “The Children of Warsaw”), mostly consisting of volunteers from the capital of the Polish Kingdom. Having heard about the Russians closing in, the soldiers marched towards the Citadel with the intention of liberating the prisoners being kept there (including Jaroslaw Dąbrowski) but already near Buda Zaborowska they encountered significant resistance of tsarist soldiers in the number of approximately 670 people. On the 14th of April, a bloody battle took place and resulted in the insurgents’ defeat (over 30 people were killed and another 30 from among the prisoners were killed by the Cossacks; according to other estimations between 150 and 200 of the “Children of Warsaw” were killed. The engagement also resulted in the death of Walery Remiszewski who was buried, along with several other people in a mass grave under a roadside cross. In 1981, in the place where the insurgents had been buried, a metal cross surrounded with a metal fence with a plaque informing about the resting place of “Kurza Łapka” and his brothers in arms was installed.
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