on 7 April 1812. He defeated Saxon troops at Kobryn and Slonim and took into captivity one General, 66 officers and 2300 soldiers with 4 standard and 8 cannon. For that and other engagements, in September 1812 he was appointed commander of the infantry corps of the 3rd Army and acted against Lithuanian Guards of general Konopka. On 12 November 1812 he was promoted to lieutenant general and led the advance-guard of Admiral Pavel Chichagov's army to the Berezina River, and fought the French at Borisov on 26 November 1812, where he was lightly wounded in the head. He captured Vilnius on 28 November 1812. In 1813, Czaplic served at Toruń, was given command of cavalry of the army of Poland, and fought at the Leipzig. In 1814, he participated in the siege of Hamburg and assumed command of the 3rd Corps of the Army of Poland on 18 April 1814. In 1817, Czaplic rose to command the 3rd Hussar Division. He was relieved of command on 27 February 1823. During his career, he also received the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, the French Order of Légion d'honneur, the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of St. Anna of 1st degree with diamonds, the Order of St. Vladimir of 2nd degree and a golden sword with diamonds. Footnotes References Alexander Mikaberidze, The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815, . External links Article in the Dictionary of Russian Generals 1768 births 1825 deaths Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree People of the Russo-Persian Wars 19th-century Polish nobility Imperial Russian Army generals Russian people of the Polish–Russian War of 1792 Russian people of the Kościuszko Uprising Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars 18th-century military personnel from the Russian Empire 18th-century Polish nobility