Portal:Poland/Did you know/94

... that an exact replica of Our Lady of Lourdes from the Grotto of Apparitions in France adorns the high altar of the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes (pictured) in Kraków?
... that during the Battle of Żownin, Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
... that the death of General Władysław Sikorski, Polish wartime prime minister-in-exile, in the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash, led to a number of conspiracy theories?
... that at the Battle of Dubienka, Tadeusz Kościuszko repulsed an attack from Imperial Russian Army forces five times the size of his own?

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