Antoni Wieruski (1804-1869), November insurrectionist, captain of the Polish Legion in Hungary (1848), served in the Sultan's Cossacks regiment, major in the Polish Legion (1854-1856), instructor in the Turkish army, battalion commander of the 1st Russki Cavalry Regiment (1863), bank director in Istanbul, guardian of Adampol, administrator of Adampol (1850-1853), director (1852-1853), stabbed to death as a Virtuti Militari cavalier, awarded the Mecidiye order
. Born 1804, in the Lublin province of the Kingdom of Poland. Polish. 1827 - serves in the army of the Congress Kingdom. In the 1830-31 Uprising, lieutenant or second lieutenant of infantry, decorated with the Virtuti Militari Order. 1832 - stays in exile in France
. December 1848 He was appointed 26th (16th) captain of the Polish fighter squad of Prince Józef Woroniecki at Máramarossziget. From January 1849 he was commander of the 5th company of the 1st Polish battalion in the Upper Tisza Corps. He takes part in the battles against the Imperial Schlik Corps. March 9- one of the organisers and commanders of the 2nd Polish battalion in Hajdúnánás. Since April with two companies of his unit in the army of Upper Hungary, i.e. serving in the Polish Legion formed in connection with it. He was wounded during the Lemes clash with the Russians (23 June). July (16th)-Major, commanding his unit in the army of the Central Tisza, in the main Hungarian army concentrated from the beginning of August near Szeged. On 17 August, he is awarded the badge for military merit, 3rd class.
At the end of the War of Independence, he fled with the legion through Serbia to Turkish soil. 1850- Head of Adampol, a village in Turkey founded by Polish refugees. During the Crimean War he was major and then lieutenant colonel of a Polish division organised under the British army, 1858- colonel of the Turkish army, then returned to Adampol near Istanbul.In 1869 in May he fell victim to a Serbian assassin.