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Kosciuszko

noun
1.
Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817).  Synonyms: Kosciusko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Kosciusko.





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"Kosciuszko" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousands of unemployed officers some of whom had had experience in the Seven Years' War and many turned eagerly to America for employment. There were some good soldiers among these fighting adventurers. Kosciuszko, later famous as a Polish patriot, rose by his merits to the rank of brigadier general in the American army; De Kalb, son of a German peasant, though not a baron, as he called himself, proved worthy ...
— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong
... has been a refuge, not only for kings and princes and statesmen and warriors, but for all sorts of adventurers and impostors. Following hard after Kosciuszko, General Charles Lee, Baron Steuben, Baron de Kalb, Lord Stirling, and Lafayette, we had Talleyrand, Louis Philippe, and Jerome Bonaparte, and Joseph, king of Spain; and, but for a sudden change of wind, might have had Napoleon the Great himself—after the affair of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various


Words linked to "Kosciuszko" :   patriot, nationalist, soldier, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Kosciusko


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