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Death of Józef Antoni Poniatowski (1763-1813), Polish aristocrat and general, 1856. Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. Death of Poniatowski on 19 October 1813, when he tried to escape wounded across the river White Elster during the Battle of Leipzig. From "Los Héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth), Vol VIII, 1856.