Tag: Armand von Brochowski

Fighting under Foreign Flags: Transnational Soldiering in the Early-19th Century

Fighting under Foreign Flags: Transnational Soldiering in the Early-19th Century

Published March 13, 2023

Written by Mario Draper

When considering which primary source to select for this blog post, I kept on coming back to the significance of a letter written by a Polish officer Armand von Brochowski to King Leopold I of Belgium on 24 November 1846. In it he explained why he, and dozens of other Polish officers, had made the perilous journey across Europe in the early 1830s to join the Belgian Army.