Tadeusz Kosciuszko
BIRTH
Feb 12, 1746
Myerachowshchyna, Belarus
DEATH
October 15, 1787
Solothurn, Switzerland
FAMILY
FATHER:
Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko
(1700-1758)
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Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
(1746-1787)
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, 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.
GRAVE:
CHURCH
Wawel Cathedral, St. Leonard's Crypt
Bazylika archikatedralna Świętych Stanisława i Wacława, Kraków, 31-001, Poland
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DIED:
Solothurn, Switzerland
Oct 15, 1787
Kościuszko was born in February 1746, in a manor house on the Mereczowszczyzna estate in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, then Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now the Ivatsevichy District of Belarus. At age 20, he graduated from the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, Poland. After the start of the civil war in 1768, Kościuszko moved to France in 1769 to study. He returned to the Commonwealth in 1774, two years after the First Partition, and was a tutor in Józef Sylwester Sosnowski's household.
In 1776, Kościuszko moved to North America, where he took part in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army. An accomplished military architect, he designed and oversaw the construction of state-of-the-art fortifications, including those at West Point, New York. In 1783, in recognition of his services, the Continental Congress promoted him to brigadier general.