Battle of Mrzygłód

Part of the January Uprising

Date	1 March 1863
Location	Mrzygłód (present-day district of Myszków)
Result	Polish victory

Belligerents

Polish insurgents

Russian Empire

Commanders and leaders

Teodor Cieszkowski

January Uprising

Ciołków
Szydłowiec
Lubartów
Węgrów
Rawa
Sosnowiec
Siemiatycze
Słupcza
Miechów
Staszów
Krzywosądz
1st Nowa Wieś
Dobra
1st Małogoszcz
Mrzygłód
Pieskowa Skała
Skała
Chroberz
Grochowiska
Igołomia
Krasnobród
Praszka
Buda Zaborowska
Borowe Młyny
Genėtiniai
2nd Nowa Wieś
Pyzdry
Pobiednik Mały
Stok
Kobylanka
Krzykawka
Biržai
1st Ignacewo
Huta Krzeszowska
Miropol
Horki
Salicha
1st Chruślina
Nagoszewo
2nd Ignacewo
Lututów
Góry
Komorów
Świerże
Ossa
Coștangalia
2nd Chruślina
Depułtycze
Żyrzyn
Złoczew
Fajsławice
Sędziejowice
Panasówka
Batorz
2nd Małogoszcz
Mełchów
Rybnica
Łążek
1st Opatów
Brody
Sprowa
Mierzwin
Huta Szczeceńska
Janik
Iłża
2nd Opatów
Żeleźnica

The Battle of Mrzygłód took place on 1 March 1863 near the village of Mrzygłód (now a district of Myszków), Russian-controlled Congress Poland. It was one of many skirmishes of the January Uprising, the anti-Russian rebellion of Poles. The battle resulted in Polish victory.

After a skirmish near the village of Panki, a party of Polish insurgents under Teodor Cieszkowski came to Mrzygłód, on 28 February 1863. The Russians, tipped by their informers, transferred here a unit of the Imperial Russian Army, which arrived at Mrzygłód by the Warsaw–Vienna railway. After two attacks, which were repulsed by the insurgents, Russian forces decided to withdraw towards Częstochowa, as their rear was exposed to another local insurgent unit.

On 1 March 1933, the 70th anniversary of the skirmish, a monument dedicated to the uprising was unveiled at the market square in Mrzygłód.