The 19th century is often referred to as the Industrial Age that pointing the way to the further. The steam engine was a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Great Britain would lead the way in developing these engines. This revolution created dangerous living conditions for people in these industrial areas. There were physical revolutions carried over from the 18th century and into the 19th. The revolution in America was the socio-political experiment still in question. These American ideas were beginning to take root in France, Ireland, and Poland. Countries wishing to shed their bonds from their oppressive foreign Empires were gearing up for war. Poland will launch five uprisings during this time to regain their freedom from their partitioners. The world of art would see tremendous changes in political thought and extravagance. The Impressionists based heir ideas on the simplification of style and subject matter. Notable authors of this period were Emille Zola, Charles Dickens revealing the less gentrified aspects of life. The Andruszkiewicz family in Poland and around Europe will be swept up into the events of these times. They will fight for Napoleon in hopes of Polish freedom. This century will see the end of the family's Women Warriors. Uprisings are brutally suppressed by the Russians and Prussians. More members of the family will break from life in Poland and move to the west for more modern and civilized ways of living seeking new ways existing through their minds and special abilities in art and music. Still, no matter what they did, or where they went, they were forever patriots to Mother Poland.