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    The War Order of Virtuti Militari (Latin: "For Military Virtue", Polish: Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari) is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism...
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    Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    d'honneur and made a Knight of Malta, also receiving the Gold Cross of Virtuti Militari. Alexandre Walewski died of a stroke at Strasbourg on 27 September...
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    Charles de Gaulle (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    the Polish army, and won Poland's highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari.: 71–74  De Gaulle returned to France, where he became a lecturer in...
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    Albert I of Belgium (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934. Albert was born in Brussels as the fifth...
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    Tadeusz Kościuszko (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    created Virtuti Militari, to this day Poland's highest military decoration. Storożyński states that Kościuszko received the Virtuti Militari for his later...
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    (Philippines) Order of Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross (Poland) Order of Virtuti Militari, First Class (Poland) Cross of Grunwald, First Class (Poland) Order...
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    Warsaw (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2020. ORDER OF VALOUR "VIRTUTI MILITARI", FIFTH CLASS Capital City of Warsaw 1940 To the inhabitants of the...
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    Józef Piłsudski (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    Józef Klemens Piłsudski (Polish: [ˈjuzɛf ˈklɛmɛns piwˈsutskʲi] ; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State...
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    John J. Pershing (category Commanders of the Virtuti Militari)
    the Order of Leopold (Belgium) WWI Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Order Virtuti Militari (2nd class – Commander's Cross) (Poland) Order of the White Lion (1st...
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    Adrian Carton de Wiart (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches Virtuti Militari (Poland) Croix de guerre (Belgium) Legion of Honour (France) Croix...
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    Ferdinand I of Romania (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
     Poland: Knight of the White Eagle, 31 August 1921 Grand Cross of the Virtuti Militari, with Star, 21 June 1923 Portugal:  Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross...
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    Ferdinand Foch (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    the White Eagle (Poland) (15 April 1923) Grand Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (15 April 1923, Poland) Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta...
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    Lviv (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    the attack. For the courage of its inhabitants Lviv was awarded the Virtuti Militari cross by Józef Piłsudski on 22 November 1920. On 23 February 1921,...
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    Stanisław August Poniatowski (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    commanded by his nephew, the King founded a new order, the Order of Virtuti Militari, to reward Poles for exceptional military leadership and courage in...
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    Emil Krukowicz-Przedrzymirski (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    Soviet War. During the war, Krukowicz-Przedrzymirski received the Virtuti Militari medal for valor. He was promoted to general in 1931. He served as the...
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    Konstantin Rokossovsky (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari (1943–1989))
    Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (1945) Grand Cross of the Virtuti Militari (1945) Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945" (1946) Medal "For Oder, Neisse...
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    during the Invasion of Poland in 1939. He was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. He began his military service in 1930 as a private in the 20th Infantry...
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    Victor Emmanuel III (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    1st Class, 1902 Poland: Knight of the White Eagle Grand Cross of the Virtuti Militari, 12 December 1923 Portugal: Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross of the...
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    Antoni Patek (category Recipients of the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    "1 August" brigade, and on 3 October the same year decorated with Virtuti Militari Golden Cross. After the downfall of the uprising – like many other...
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    Stanisław Sosabowski (category Knights of the Virtuti Militari)
    awarded Col. Sosabowski and the whole 21st Infantry Regiment with the Virtuti Militari medal. Following the Polish surrender, Sosabowski was made a prisoner...
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    during World War II and a recipient of the Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari award. Poland's highest military decoration. The Holy Trinity Church...
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    Georgy Zhukov (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari (1943–1989))
    Lion, 1st class (Czechoslovakia) War Cross 1939–1945 (Czechoslovakia) Virtuti Militari, 1st class (Poland) Order of Polonia Restituta, 1st class (Poland)...
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    Bernard Montgomery (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    Order of George I (Greece, 20 June 1944) Silver Cross (V Class) of the Virtuti Militari (Poland, 31 October 1944) Grand Cross of the Military Order of the...
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    ORP Błyskawica (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    She is the only Polish Navy ship to have been decorated with the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military order for gallantry, and in 2012 was given...
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    Stanisław Maczek (category Knights of the Virtuti Militari)
    Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari Gold Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari Grand Cross of the Order...
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    in the aftermath of the battle the Polish highest military award, Virtuti Militari, was established. The Russians' greatest success in this war was the...
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    Michał Rola-Żymierski (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    For his performance during this phase of the war, he was awarded the Virtuti Militari V class. After the war, he was sent to Paris, where he graduated from...
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    Józef Haller (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    Army during the infamous November Uprising. He was also awarded the Virtuti Militari Knight's Cross. Józef spent his early childhood in the countryside...
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    Merian C. Cooper (category Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari)
    commander-in-chief Józef Piłsudski with the highest Polish military decoration, the Virtuti Militari. During his time as a POW, Cooper wrote an autobiography: Things Men...
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    Alexander I of Yugoslavia (category Grand Crosses of the Virtuti Militari)
    class (Ottoman Empire) Order of the Sun of Peru, Grand Cross (Peru) Virtuti Militari, Grand Cross (Poland) Order of the White Eagle, Grand Cross (Poland)...
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