1807 - Napoleon creates the Duchy of Warsaw as a client state to rally Polish support for his cause. ... 1920 - Soviet Red Army offensive repulsed. 1926 - Pilsudski stages a military coup, ...

Officially founded on June 28 1812 by the parliament of the Duchy of Warsaw (see: NOTE 1), the confederation reintroduced a government model resembling the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...

Only a few Jews were found in Warsaw when the Red Army captured the Polish capital on Wednesday, the Lublin radio said today in a Yiddish broadcast. It gave no further details.