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→Third Partition (1795)
===Third Partition (1795)===
===Third Partition (1795)===
The Third Partition of the Republic in 1795 was an outcome of a last attempt to reverse the fortune of the Commonwealth which started in March 1794 with the beginning of the widespread uprising led by [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] (a participant in the [[American War of Independence]] against [[Great Britain]]). However, the Polish-Lithuanian rebels finally were defeated by Russia in 1795. Consequently, the remains of the Republic of Two Nations were partitioned between victorious Russia and Prussia and the noncombatant Habsburg Monarchy for the sake to keep a geopolitical balance between these three European great powers. In other words, in 1795, Russia received the greatest portion of the Republic (120,000 sq. kilometers with 1,200,000 people) including Courland, Samogitia, [[Lithuania]] proper with Wilno/[[Vilnius]] and Troki/Trakai, and Volhynia. The Kingdom of Prussia annexed 48,000 sq. kilometers populated by 1,020,000 people (New [[East Prussia]] up to the Neman/Memel River including Mazovia and a small portion of land northwest of Cracow – New Silesia). The Habsburg Monarchy occupied [[West Galicia]] or the lands beyond the Vistula River up to the Western Bug with 1,500,000 inhabitants (18,200 square miles) including the rest of Cracow (on the right bank of Vistula).
== Second Polish Republic ==
== Second Polish Republic ==