Dawid Gralik

@WW2girl1944 You mean this one?

Who has a copy of that meme cartoon of the end of the war where Poland swaps one occupation for another. The one with the soldiers holding guns. I can't find mine and I need it for a talk I am giving. Would be super grateful 🙏🙏 #twitterstorians #Historians #meme

@KKriegeBlog Congratulations!

I’m completely humbled by faith that the SAHR has shown in my work, and deeply honored to have received this award from a society that means so much to me, and meant so much to my mentor Christopher Duffy. I certainly wouldn’t be here without his inspiration.

As many of you know, I occassionally successfully try crowd fundraising to purchase valuable docs from the Nap wars. There is a sale of 180 letters by an officer of 10th Hussars in Pen war. Will sell for £4-5k. I am looking for pledges of £100+, I will put in £500

@KKriegeBlog Good luck, I keep my fingers crossed.

Quite humbled to see Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, shortlisted for the Templer Medal. We're all a product of our mentors, and I have done my best to make Katherine and Christopher proud.

@AndNapoleon Regarding the disagreement between Napoleon and Kościuszko, it's worth adding that Fouché, who was delegated to mediate in their correspondence, played a significant role in this. Interestingly, the figure of Kościuszko was used in Napoleonic propaganda distributed in 1806.

#OTD Born Feb 4, 1746, Tadeusz Kościuszko: Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, general, and patriot.🇵🇱 Kościuszko trained as an engineer and became a hero of the Am. Rev War, designing key fortifications at West Point that helped secure crucial victories for the Continental Army. He later led the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) in a Polish bid to resist partition and foreign domination — a defining moment that set the stage for later Napoleonic reorganizations of Europe. Napoleon briefly considered using Kościuszko’s support in his own bid to reestablish a Polish state — though the 2 ultimately disagreed over terms. #Napoleon #poland

Real versions of the past, even ones that are curated by artists, are so much more inspiring than AI. Here is a thread of details from Bernardo Bellotto's View of Warsaw from the Royal Castle, from the 1770s. It brings the past to life in a way that AI cannot. 1/25

@RMB_History Congratulations!

I offer no further comment at this time. Brb adding dr to my name on here #vivadone #itsdoctoractually

@NapWarsPod Two of the most important marshals, but overall, the choice must definitely be Davout.

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@NapWarsPod @GraemeCallister The Napoleonic Guard is indeed a very interesting unit, considering its division into the Old Guard and the Young Guard, as well as the presence of a large number of foreign formations, such as the Polish chevau-légers or Mamelouks.

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@SAuthenticum Ech, kiedyś to było. Na żużlu mamy to samo. Gdyby dać obecnym zawodnikom tory z lat 90/00. bez komisarzy, odwoływania meczy na podstawie prognoz pogody i czepiania się o mikroruchy na starcie to większość zawodników by się wykruszyła.

I to był konkurs. Bez przeliczników za wiatr, bez zmian belek, bez kombinowania w kombinezonach, nie potrafiłeś sobie poradzić w tym warunkach - nie liczyłeś się. Oj wielu skoczków dzisiaj spłakałoby się, gdyby miała skakać w Obersdorfie na k-115.

@HistorianAbel Usually, I simply make a note that it's an unknown person, e.g. Person X to NN (an abbreviation commonly used in Poland, from the Latin Nomen Nescio - unknown person) and the rest is normal - date, place, etc.

A question for my fellow historians: how would you cite correspondence when one of the correspondents is anonymous? #twitterstorians

@DrzazgaDamian Myślę, że powszechniejsze niż entuzjazm było uczucie ulgi związane z końcem okresu długotrwałych wojen. Nie zmienia to faktu, że kwestia legalności jest dyskusyjna i uzależniona od przyjętych kryteriów. Na marginesie, nie wiem czy widziałeś ten tekst: kh-ihpan.edu.pl/images/KH2025-…

@dawgra93 Sprawa ewoluowała w czasie, powiedziałbym sinusoidalnie. Choć przychylam się do głosów Zajewskiego i Bartoszewicza, że początkowy entuzjazm jest przeszacowany i wyrażany głównie przez oficjalne kanały.

Panował nam, z prawa miecza i łaski kongresu, niekoronowany król Polski.

2 December 1805: the Battle of Austerlitz Napoleon's masterpiece, the battle led to the almost total destruction of a larger Austro-Russian army. But just how experienced was the army that Napoleon took into the battle? Here's a brief thread on one regiment, the 33e Ligne. 1/

If you want to read more about the participation of Poles in the Battle of Austerlitz, I recommend the aforementioned thread from three years ago: x.com/dawgra93/statu… 26/end

to Alexander on his behalf; these were always the same words, assuring us that he had already experienced similar defeats and that, although he felt the blow directly, he was far from abandoning all hope." 25/

On the occasion of the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz, I would like to put my two 🇵🇱 cents, as usual 😊. As I mentioned in a thread three years ago, Poles took part in the battle on both sides. One of them was Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. #OTD #Austerlitz220 1/