The agreement of partition had been signed…

The agreement of partition had been signed in Vienna in February 1772.

The Russian, Prussian and Austrian troops had simultaneously entered the Commonwealth early in August and occupied the provinces agreed upon among themselves.

The occupation manifesto had been issued on August 5, 1772, much to the consternation of a country too exhausted by the endeavors of the Confederation of Bar to offer successful resistance.

Several battles and sieges have taken place place nonetheless, as Polish troops refused to lay down their arms (most notably, in Tyniec, Kraków, and Częstochowa).