Origin
The Kościuszkos owned land in Polesia. Tadeusz was born into a family of modest resources compared with the Commonwealth’s great magnate houses.
Kościuszko
A noble family from Polesia that produced the military engineer and leader of the uprising of 1794.
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His education in Warsaw and Paris enabled a career as a military engineer. In America he contributed to the defences of Saratoga and West Point during the War of Independence.
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Tadeusz led the uprising of 1794 and died in exile in 1817. His career connected American independence movements with struggles over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s future.
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