On October 22 the II battalion of Polish Legions led by Major Edward Rydz-Śmigły fought in the woods near the village of Anielin fierce and bloody battle with 3 Russian battalions.
Śmigły-Rydz was transferred from the internment camp to the villa of a former Romanian prime minister in Dragoslavele, from where he escaped on 10 December 1940 and crossed illegally into Hungary.
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Rydz was Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Warsaw and Vilnius (at that time in Poland) and Warsaw University of Technology and Honorary Citizen of various Polish cities.
In mid-September 1939 Edward Rydz-Śmigły reformed the Śląsk Operational Group into Operational Group Jagmin.
In 2102 he began the personal financing of the restoration of a portrait of Edward Rydz-Śmigły by the artist, Jan Hawrylkiewicz.
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