CHLOPICKI, GREGORZ JOZEF Polish general, was born in Podolia. In 1787 he enlisted in the Polish army and f ought in the campaigns of 1792-94. He served with the new Italian legion at the storming of Peschiera, at Modena, Busano, Casabianca and Ponto, and in 1807 commanded the first Vistula regiment. In Spain he obtained the Legion of Honour for his heroism at Epila and the storming of Saragossa. Chlopicki accompanied the Grande Armee into Russia 08'2). On the recon struction of the Polish army in 1813 he was made a general of a division, afterwards joining the Russian army with the rank of general officer. He held aloof at first from the Polish national rising of 1830, but at the request of his countrymen he accepted the dictatorship on Dec. 5, 1830. Lacking faith in the success of the movement, he clung to the hope of negotiation with Russia and acted purely on the defensive. On Jan. 17, 1831, he resigned and became a private, until he was forced to retire into private life owing to serious wounds received at Olszyna.
See Josef Maczynski, Life and Death of Joseph Chlopicki (Pol.) (Cracow, 1858) ; Ignacy Pradzynski, The Four Last Polish Com manders (Pol.) (Posen, i865).