Kościuszko mourned his country's prior defeat with the Latin exclamation "Finis Poloniae!" ("Poland is no more!"). Five years later, and again at Hetzel's insistence...

Masson, David; et al. (1869), "Historical Forgeries and Kosciuszko's "Finis Poloniae"", Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 19, Macmillan and Company, p. 164 Nofi...

the Battle of Maciejowice, shortly before he was captured, he said "Finis Poloniae", meaning in Latin "[This is] the end of Poland."[citation needed] Austrian...

Death Maria Bal as Poland's national symbol Motherland Sleeping Harpy Finis Poloniae (double portrait) The Spring Elzbieta Charazinska, director; Musée d'Orsay...