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2nd Grodno Battalion of the King and Commonwealth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ107359851 ↗
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The 2nd Grodno Battalion of the King and Commonwealth (Polish: Bataljon 2-gi JKMCI i RZPLITEJ Grodzieński.) was a military unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

History

This infantry battalion was absorbed into the 7th Lithuanian Infantry Regiment in 1790.

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References

Gembarzewski, Bronisław (1925), Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831 (in Polish), Warszawa: Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej

Rospond, Vincent W. (2013). Commonwealth Armies of the Partitions 1770–1794. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908855-8.

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This entry incorporates text from “2nd Grodno Battalion of the King and Commonwealth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.