“Lithuania! My countrymen and tribesmen! I was born in your land, sincere love for my homeland evokes in me a special favor for those among whom I began my life”
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Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the U.S. side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794…
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politics · Polish military leader (1746–1817) · military officer · engineer · politician · resistance fighter · hero · soldier · geographical engineer (military cartographer) · military leader · major general · also Tadeusz Kościuszko, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko, Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Born 12 February 1746 · Died 15 October 1817 · Q191479
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If this does not soften you and you do not raise my case in the Sejm so that I can return, I myself will probably, God sees, do something bad to myself, as I am angry because being from Lithuania I serve the Kingdom [of Poland] when you do not have three generals
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2026· 3 entries
“If this does not soften you and you do not raise my case in the Sejm so that I can return, I myself will probably, God sees, do something bad to myself, as I am angry because being from Lithuania I serve the Kingdom [of Poland] when you do not have three generals”
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2025· 1 entry
Niezalezna: Tadeusz Kościuszko: bohater dwóch narodów
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2023· 1 entry
The monument at West Point was dismantled for refurbishment, and a sealed lead box of about 1 cubic foot (28 L) was discovered in the base
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2021· 1 entry
And 2022 suggested that endocarditis caused by a Cutibacterium acnes infection was a contributing factor to his death
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2020· 2 entries
Onet Wiadomosci: Tadeusz Kościuszko
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wp: Tadeusz Kościuszko. Był zbyt ubogi, by poślubić ukochaną, więc postanowił ją porwać
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2017· 1 entry
Wyborcza: Tadeusz Kościuszko. Naczelnik z krwi i kości, kontestator Napoleona i przyjaciel Jeffersona [200. rocznica śmierci wodza insurekcji]
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2015· 1 entry
culture.pl: Tadeusz Kościuszko, Thaddeus Stevens & the Abolition of Slavery in America (& Poland)
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2013· 1 entry
poznan.naszemiasto: Tadeusz Kościuszko i Bataliony Chłopskie w Poznaniu razem [ZDJĘCIA]
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2010· 1 entry
A copy of the monument was unveiled in Warsaw, Poland
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1960· 1 entry
And Łódź (by Mieczysław Lubelski); in the United States at Boston, West Point, Philadelphia (by Marian Konieczny), Detroit (a copy of Leonard Marconi's Kraków statue), Washington, D
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1942· 1 entry
The World War II Liberty Ship SS Thaddeus Kosciuszko was named in his honor
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1939· 1 entry
In New York City and the Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge completed in 1959 across the Mohawk River between Albany and Saratoga counties in upstate New York
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1927· 1 entry
Where the heart now reposes in a chapel at the Royal Castle
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1920· 1 entry
And a 2009 work by Alex Storozynski titled The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
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1826· 1 entry
For African Americans in the United States
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1820· 1 entry
By Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, who served beside Kościuszko as his aide-de-camp and was also imprisoned in Russia after the uprising
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1818· 1 entry
Kościuszko's body was transferred to Kraków, arriving at St
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1817· 4 entries
Died 1817-10-15.
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“Opis: modlitwa ułożona przez Kościuszkę dla Michała Czackiego.”
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“Opis: 7 maja 1794 w odezwie do polskich prawosławnych.”
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“Chcą mnie wziąć za naczelnika – ale póki nie ujrzę, że jest z czym zacząć i utrzymać się, nie chcę ni kraju, ni siebie na sroższe wydawać nieszczęścia.”
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1814· 2 entries
“Opis: list do Adama Czartoryskiego (1814).”
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“Opis: list do Adama Czartoryskiego (1814) o potrzebie rozdziału Kościoła od państwa, napisany podczas kongresu wiedeńskiego.”
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1807· 2 entries
Only as an expedient, not because he supported Polish sovereignty
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Kościuszko settled in château de Berville, near La Genevraye, distancing himself from politics
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1746· 1 entry
Born 1746-02-12.
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