<Li> Napoleon's Invasion of Russia </Li> <Li> Polish--Soviet </Li> <P> The November Uprising (1830--31), also known as the Polish--Russian War 1830--31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire . The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki . They were soon joined by large segments of societies of Lithuania, Belarus, and the Right - bank Ukraine . Despite local successes, the uprising was eventually crushed by a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich . Tsar Nicholas I decreed that henceforth Poland was an integral part of Russia, with Warsaw little more than a military garrison, its university closed . </P> <P> After the Partitions of Poland, Poland ceased to exist as an independent political entity at the end of 1795 . However, the Napoleonic Wars and Polish participation in the wars against Russia and Austria resulted in the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 . The Congress of Vienna brought that state's existence to an end in 1815, and essentially solidified the long - term division of Poland among Russia, Prussia and the Habsburg Empire . The Austrian Empire annexed territories in the South, Prussia took control over the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznań in the West, and Russia assumed hegemony over the semi-autonomous so - called Congress Kingdom . </P>

Who attempted to get its independence from russia in 1830