Mogiła z Powstania Styczniowego

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To the east of Izabelin, near the facilities of the Kampinos National Park there is an earth grave from the times of the January uprising. The history of the insurgents buried here has already faded in people’s memory. However, it is thought, that they could have been members of Walery Remiszewski’s unit who were killed in an encounter with tsarist army which took place under Zaborów Leśny on the 14th April of 1863. On the 17th of January 1863, at the manor in Kampinos, an insurgent emissary arrived. It was Zygmunt Padlewski who had already collected around a thousand people in the forest, ready to fight, but poorly armed. Despite their keenness and knowledge of the area, they stood no chance against the tsarist regular army and efficient intelligence. In Spring, Ramiszewski’s unit which consisted of 250 insurgents retreated from Wawrzyszewo to the Zaborów woods. Near Zaborów, they encountered a 500-men Russian unit. The number of insurgents who were killed in the uneven combat is estimated to be between 150 and 200 people (historians have identified 105 of them). However, 50 Russians also lost their lives. The Poles’ keen resistance strengthened the brutality towards the prisoners. Many of them were murdered with bayonets. Remiszewski himself suffered from 17 inflicted wounds. The watch of the insurgents’ commander was to be handed over to tsar Alekasnder II. The main mass grave of the killed soldiers is located near the battlefield, but some of the soldiers of the insurgent unit were captured in the nearby forests and shot on the spot (mainly under Górka and Stara Dąbrowa), some of them were hanged (one of the old Kampinos pines is supposedly bent because of the weight of the bodies).

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