#think macbet but a peasant woman who murdered many many more people than macbet

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The mentioned poet is (to oh me my suprise) the Adam Mickiewicz (hence the name) and the biggest contender to the title of the polish national poet. The suprise came from the fact that Mickwiecz himself created the legion for the italian revolution in 1848 - he, rather infamously, did not participate in any way in the polish uprising mentioned ( the November Uprising in 1830).

In the manifesto itself (I found it!) there was a single point that can be summarised to "to women, life companions, equal rights in everything". Altough, the radicalism came from Mickiewicz's favourite idea of Messianism (that Poland was 'The Christ of Europe' and was killed and would rise again to 'unify all in God) (no, I'm not joking that was his favourite philosophy) and the idea of panslavism (the unification of all slavic nations) (which he was not liked for as the November Uprising was against russians and russians were generally hated)

The legion itself counted at its biggest around 200 people, although apperently a total of about 500 people has passed through it during its existance. Mickiewicz himself left the legion after around 2 months and passed the authority to Mikołaj Kamiński. They fought mostly in Lombardy and Genua. Apparently, the legion wasn't very famous or succesful in fighting but was still liked by the italians. The legion lasted around 15 months, in which they also tried helping in the hungarian uprising and then disbaned.

Tho APH Poland still had very good reasons to be in Italy ! One of the most famous polish legions were the Italian legions during Napoleonic Era; they're even mentioned in our anthem! Polish legions were also very active during the springtime of nations, as many believed that fighting alongside others will help our own cause laster. . . or just wanted to fuck with Austria

so, yeah, overall you do have (my) polish approval (tm)

The Mickiewicz Legion was a group of Polish radical revolutionaries who went to Italy (Rome, Milano, Genoa,…) in order to fight after the Polish revolution failed. Their leader was a feminist poet with an interesting hair style. I couldn’t find many sources on them so most of it is Wikipedia, so if I have some Polish followers who can give me more info that would be amazing!