page_title: Great Emigration
hierarchical_section_title: Great Emigration
caption_attribution_description: English: Made on a summer day in the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw A series of anonymous xylographs depicting the early stages of the November Uprising in Warsaw, as well as the aftermath of the fights - the Great Emigration Polish emmigrants in Belgium
context_page_description: The Great Emigration was the emigration of thousands of Poles, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830-1831 and of other uprisings. The number of political exiles did not exceed more than 6,000 during this time.
  The exiles included soldiers and officers of the uprising, members of the Sejm of Congress Poland of 1830–31, and several prisoners-of-war who escaped from captivity.
context_section_description: The Great Emigration (Polish: Wielka Emigracja) was the emigration of thousands of Poles, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830-1831 and of  other uprisings (for example: Kraków uprising of 1846, January Uprising of 1863-1864). The number of political exiles did not exceed more than 6,000 during this time.
  The exiles included soldiers and officers of the uprising, members of the Sejm of Congress Poland of 1830–31, and several prisoners-of-war who escaped from captivity.
caption: Polish Emigrants in Belgium, a 19th-century graphic
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