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Poland, Second Partition of

Years: 1792 - 1793

The 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is the second of three partitions that ends the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.

The second partition occurs in the aftermath of the War in Defense of the Constitution and the Targowica Confederation of 1792 and is carried out by the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.

It is ratified by the Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1793.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)