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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko [note 1] (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; [note 2] 4 or 12 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial preserves the home of Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kościuszko at 301 Pine Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The life and work of the Polish patriot and hero of the American Revolution are commemorated here.
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), a prominent figure in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the American Revolution, made several wills, notably one in 1798 stipulating that the proceeds of his American estate be spent on freeing and educating African-American slaves, including those of his friend Thomas Jefferson whom he named as the will's executor.
A Kościuszko monument in Minsk, Belarus, was dedicated in 2005. [5] Kościuszko is mentioned in Lord Byron's poem Age of Bronze in the line "That sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear --- Kosciusko!". Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas included Kościuszko's portrait in Captain Nemo's study.
Kościuszko's Monument is a pedestal and statue of Polish General Tadeusz Kościuszko at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.Kościuszko designed the defenses of the West Point garrison from 1778–1780 during the height of the Revolutionary War, when George Washington considered West Point to be the most important military post in America. [1]
Kościuszko's birthplace in the mid-19th-century (by Alphonse Bichebois). In the first half of the 18th century, the folwark of Mereczowszczyzna belonged to the Sapieha family, and until the Partitions of Poland, was administratively located in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Warsaw (Polish: Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Warszawie) is a statue dedicated to commemorate the national hero of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States, general Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), and situated on the Iron-Gate Square in front of the Lubomirski Palace.
Brigadier General Thaddeus Kościuszko is a bronze statue honoring Polish military figure and engineer Tadeusz Kościuszko. The sculpture was dedicated in 1910, the third of four statues in Lafayette Square , Washington, D.C. , to honor foreign-born heroes of the American Revolutionary War .