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Polish general

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Jan Maurycy Hauke
Portrait byAlexander Molinari
Birth name	Johann Moritz Hauke
Born	(1775-10-26)26 October 1775 Seifersdorf,Saxony
Died	29 November 1830(1830-11-29) (aged 55) Warsaw,Congress Kingdom of Poland
Allegiance	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Duchy of Warsaw Congress Poland
Service/ branch	Army
Rank	General
Commands	Deputy Minister of War
Battles / wars	Kościuszko Uprising Napoleonic Wars November Uprising †
Awards	Legion of Honour Virtuti Militari Order of Saint Stanislaus Order of Saint Anna Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky Order of the White Eagle
Relations	Fryderyk Karol Emanuel Hauke (father) Julia Hauke (daughter)

Jan Maurycy Hauke (26 October 1775 – 29 November 1830) was a Polish general and professional soldier ofHauke family, which had Flemish and Saxon origins.

Life

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Maurycy Hauke was the son ofFryderyk Karol Emanuel Hauke (1737–1810), a German professor at theWarsaw Lyceum, and served between 1790 and 1793 in the army ofPoland during thecountry's last years of independence. Maurycy Hauke was an alumnus of Warsaw'sCorps of Cadets, and fought in theKościuszko Uprising, thePolish Legions in France and later served in the army of theDuchy of Warsaw inAustria,Italy, Germany and thePeninsular War. After 1815, Maurycy joined the army ofCongress Poland, reaching the rank of fullgeneral in 1826 and receiving a title ofPolish nobility. Recognizing his abilities,Tsar Nicholas I appointed him Deputy Minister of War of Congress Poland and elevated him in 1829 toCount.

The obelisk in Warsaw on its first site before the Saxon Palace

In theuprising of 1830 led by revolutionary army cadets, the target wasGrand Duke Constantine,Poland's Governor-General. Count Maurycy Hauke was on his way to the Grand Duke who managed to escape, but Hauke was shot to death by the cadets on the street of Warsaw before the eyes of his wife, Sophie Lafontaine (daughter ofFranz Leopold Lafontaine), and his three younger children. He was riding on a horse beside the carriage of his wife and having met a group of rebels who shouted: "Be our leader, General!" Hauke reprimanded them and told them to go back to their quarters, whereupon they opened fire and killed him. His wife died shortly afterward, and their younger children were made wards of the Tsar, while three elder sons joined the uprising and one of them, Maurice Leopold, fell during thebattle of Ostrołęka in 1831 only 27 years old. After his victory over the Poles, the Tsar raised in 1841 an enormousobelisk in Warsaw, which was dedicated to the memory of Hauke and five other Polish generals who "preserved their fidelity to their Monarch". Detested by the inhabitants of the Polish capital, the obelisk was pulled down in 1917.

On 28 October 1851, Hauke's youngest daughter, CountessJulia Hauke, thenlady-in-waiting to Russian EmpressMaria Alexandrovna, marriedPrince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Maria's brother. Julia became an ancestress of theMountbatten family, theBritish royal family, and theSpanish royal family. Hauke's older daughter, Katarzyna, became the mistress ofPaul Friedrich, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg.