war and had a tremendous effect on Polish morale. In Warsaw they have had great celebrations with huge fireworks for the entire week. Poles especially enjoyed the fact that Dwernicki won over baron Geismar, whose fame as the greatest Russian vanguard commander was fresh from the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29). Russians Geismar himself officially wrote to Diebitsch that "soldiers were just struck with sudden panic-attack", but in his private letter to his friend Colonel Anrep, who was about to take charge of the Pereyaslvl Mounted-Jaeger Regiment after above-described battle, he expressed great concern regarding the general moral and military capability of the Regiment, bitterly complaining that in all his years of service with Russians, he was always a great admirer of virtues of Russian Soldier—until that very day. He always described this attack as one of his greatest mistakes—though not on the battlefield but, rather, in his own estimation of the moral attitude of his troops. They report him saying constantly on the matter: "If I would only have been aware of the moral state of my men at the time I launched the operation—surely, I wouldn't dare to attack Dwernicki's troops at all, not to discuss 'in such a position." In 1833 Nicolas I of Russia disbanded Mounted-Jaegers as the type of cavalry. People were sent to the other cavalry regiments in accordance with matches of hue of their horses. Literature Memoire of General Baron Theodore Geismar and comments on them. Vladimir Geismar. Russkaya Starina (Old Times in Russia) - 1881, book 5; 1882, book 1 (in Russian Old Spelling). References Conflicts in 1831 Battles of the November Uprising 1831 in Poland February 1831 events