Tadeusz Kościuszko facts for kids
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Tadeusz Kościuszko
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![]() Portrait by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart. Kościuszko is shown wearing the Eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati, awarded to him by General Washington (U.S.A.).
![]() Coat of arms: Roch III |
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Birth name | Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko |
Born | Mereczowszczyzna, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
4 February 1746
Died | 15 October 1817 Solothurn, Switzerland |
(aged 71)
Allegiance | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1765–1776, 1784–1794) United States (1776–1784) |
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Continental Army Army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Years of service | 1765–1794 |
Rank | Brevet US brigadier general, October 1783 Polish lieutenant-general, 1792 |
Unit | Engineer, (Continental Army) Naczelnik (commander-in-chief), (Polish Army) |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War Polish–Russian War of 1792
Kościuszko Uprising
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (1746 – 1817) was a Polish, Lithuanian and Belarussian national hero, general and a leader of the Kościuszko Uprising (which bears his name) against the Russian Empire.Tadeusz was born in February 1746 on the Polish-Lithuanian border. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army on the side of Washington. Because of his service he was brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of Brigadier General in 1783, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States that same year. He died in Solothurn,Switzerland on October 15,1817 due to typhoid fever.
Images for kids
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Warsaw's Kazimierz Palace, where Kościuszko attended the Corps of Cadets
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Fort Clinton (West Point), fortified by Kościuszko. In background: his statue.
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Kościuszko and his peasant scythemen, from Matejko's Battle of Racławice
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House in Philadelphia where Kościuszko stayed in 1797
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Kościuszko's last residence, in Solothurn, Switzerland, where he passed away
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Mount Kosciuszko, Australia
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Statue of Kościuszko on Northerly Island, Chicago