In 1918 he organized the Lithuanian and Belarusian Self-Defence and 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Division and on 8 December he was officialy accepted into the newly forming Polish Army by the order of Józef Piłsudski in the rank of major general.
He organized the Lithuanian and Belarusian Self-Defence-Belarusian Division. This was in 1918. He organized the Lithuanian and Belarusian Self-1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Division. This was in 1918. He was officialy accepted into the newly forming Polish Army by the order of Józef Piłsudski in the rank of major general. This was on 8 December.