Editing Tadeusz Kościuszko

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| name          = Tadeusz Kościuszko
| image         = Karl G Schweikart - Tadeusz Kościuszko (ÖaL).jpg
| caption       = Kościuszko is shown wearing the eagle of the [[Society of the Cincinnati]], awarded to him by [[George Washington|General Washington]]. (Karl G. Schweikart)<br/>[[File:Herb Roch III.svg|99px]]<br/>Coat of arms:<br/>[[Roch III coat of arms|Roch III]]
| birth_name    = Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1746|02|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Myerachowshchyna|Mereczowszczyzna]], [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1817|10|15|1746|02|04|df=yes}}
| death_place   = [[Solothurn]], Switzerland
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*{{flag|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|1764}} (1765–1776, 1784–1794)
*{{flagu|United States|1777}} (1776–1784)}}
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*[[Continental Army]]
*[[Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's Army]]}}
| serviceyears  = 1765–1794
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*[[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] US [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]], October 1783
*Polish [[lieutenant-general]], 1792}}
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*Engineer (Continental Army)
*''Naczelnik'' (commander-in-chief) ([[Polish Army]])}}
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* [[American Revolutionary War]]
** [[Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)|Siege of Fort Ticonderoga]]
** [[Battles of Saratoga]]
** [[Battle of Hobkirk's Hill]]
** [[Siege of Ninety Six]]
** [[Battle of James Island]]
* [[Polish–Russian War of 1792]]
** [[Battle of Zieleńce]]
** [[Battle of Dubienka]]
* [[Kościuszko Uprising]]
** [[Battle of Racławice]]
** [[Battle of Maciejowice]]
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* [[Society of the Cincinnati|Order of Cincinnati]]
* [[Virtuti Militari]]
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| signature     = Tadeusz Kościuszko's signature.svg
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{{Agrarianism in Poland |Politicians}}
'''Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko'''{{#tag:ref|{{IPA|pl|ˈandʐɛj taˈdɛ.uʐ bɔnavɛnˈtura kɔˈɕt͡ɕuʂkɔ|-|Pl-Tadeusz_Kościuszko.ogg|small=no}}, approximated in English as {{IPAc-en|t|ə|ˈ|d|eɪ|ə|ʃ|_|k|ɒ|ʃ|ˈ|tʃ|ʊ|s|k|oʊ|,_|-|ʊ|ʃ|k|oʊ}} {{respell|tə|DAY|əsh|_|kosh|CHUUS(H)K|oh}}.<ref>{{YouTube|iE11CaYUdpw|President Komorowski Honors Kosciuszko at West Point}}, 3′33″.</ref> {{langx|lt|Andrius Tadas Bonaventura Kosciuška}}; {{langx|be|Андрэй Тадэвуш Банавентура Касьцюшка|{{transliteration|be|bgn/pcgn|Andrey Tadevush Banavyentura Kas’tsyushka}}}}.<ref>[[#Bumblauskas|Bumblauskas, 1994]], p. 4.</ref>|group = "note"}} ({{langx|en|'''Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko'''}};{{#tag:ref|A number of [[Anglicisation|Anglicized]] spellings of Kościuszko's name appear in records, including the full version given here or the shorter ''Thaddeus Kosciuszko''. The common Anglicized pronunciation of his surname is {{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|ɒ|s|i|ˈ|ʌ|s|k|oʊ}} {{respell|KOSS|ee|USK|oh}}.|group = "note"}} 4 or 12 February 1746{{snd}}15 October 1817) was a Polish [[Military engineering|military engineer]], statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=A museum dedicated to the Polish military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko. |title=Kościuszko Museum - The Kościuszko Museum has existed in Solothurn (Switzerland) at Gurzelngasse 12 since 1936. The Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko lived and died in this house. |url=https://www.solothurn-city.ch/en/attractions/kosciuszko-museum-c2be4802be |access-date=6 June 2022 |website=www.solothurn-city.ch |language=en |quote=Life of the Polish military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko – who spent the last few years of his life in Solothurn from 1814 to 1817 – through documents, images and objects. The house where he died was converted into the Kościuszko Museum and represents both his close relationship with Solothurn and a piece of world history.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dolan |first=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXBrHAAACAAJ |title=The Polish Americans |date=1997 |publisher=Chelsea House |isbn=978-0-7910-3364-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Meg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uioXjPkgN9oC&q=Thaddeus+Ko%C5%9Bciuszko+:+Polish+general+and+patriot |title=Thaddeus Kos ́ciuszko: Polish General and Patriot |date=2002 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2513-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://minsk.usembassy.gov/kosciuszko2015.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117024931/http://minsk.usembassy.gov/kosciuszko2015.html |archive-date=2015-11-17 |title=2015 Programs and Events &#124; Minsk, Belarus - Embassy of the United States|date=17 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5FQtwAACAAJ |title=Memorial Exhibition Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Revered Polish and American Hero, His Patriotism, Vision, and Zeal Revealed in a Collection of Autograph Letters by Him: As Well in a Collection of Autograph Letters about Him by Prominent Leaders of the American Revolution and Other, Also Oil Painting, Medals, Engravings, Books, Broadsides and Other Relics Being the Collection Formed by Dr.&Mrs. Alexander Kahanowicz : Exhibition from Sunday, May Fifteenth to June Eleventh, The Anderson Galleries [...], New York |date=1927 |publisher=[[Anderson Galleries]] - The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref> He fought in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]'s struggles against [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], and on the U.S. side in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 [[Kościuszko Uprising]].

Kościuszko was born in February 1746, in a manor house on the [[Mieračoŭščyna|Mereczowszczyzna]] estate in [[Brest Litovsk Voivodeship]], then [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now the [[Ivatsevichy District]] of Belarus.<ref>[https://docs.rferl.org/be-BY/2020/11/07/96247f72-a7e0-4382-ad1c-ec68459cf6b7.pdf Уладзімер Арлоў «Імёны Свабоды» (Uladzimer Arloǔ "The Names of Freedom")](in Belarusian) pp 26-27</ref> At age 20, he graduated from the [[Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)|Corps of Cadets]] in [[Warsaw]], Poland. After the start of the [[War of the Bar Confederation]] in 1768, Kościuszko moved to France in 1769 to study. He returned to the Commonwealth in 1774, two years after the [[First Partition of Poland|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|West Point]], New York. In 1783, in recognition of his services, the [[Continental Congress]] promoted him to [[brigadier general]].

Upon returning to Poland in 1784, Kościuszko was commissioned as a [[major general]] in the [[Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army]] in 1789. After the [[Polish–Russian War of 1792]] resulted in the [[Second Partition of Poland|Commonwealth's Second Partition]], he commanded an uprising against the Russian Empire in March 1794 until he was captured at the [[Battle of Maciejowice]] in October 1794. The defeat of the Kościuszko Uprising that November led to Poland's [[Third Partition of Poland|Third Partition]] in 1795, which ended the Commonwealth. In 1796, following the death of Tsaritsa [[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]], Kościuszko was pardoned by her successor, Tsar [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]], and he emigrated to the United States. A close friend of [[Thomas Jefferson]], with whom he shared ideals of human rights, Kościuszko wrote [[Wills of Tadeusz Kościuszko|a will]] in 1798, dedicating his U.S. assets to the education and freedom of the U.S. slaves. Kościuszko eventually returned to Europe and lived in Switzerland until his death in 1817. The execution of his [[Will and testament|testament]] later proved difficult, and the funds were never used for the purpose he intended.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pula |first=James S. |date=1977 |title=The American Will of Thaddeus Kosciuszko |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20147972 |journal=Polish American Studies |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=16–25 |jstor=20147972 |issn=0032-2806}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:Tadeusz Kościuszko w wieku chłopięcym.PNG|thumb|left|Kościuszko, aged 15, in 1761]]

Kościuszko was born in February 1746 in a manor house on the [[Mieračoŭščyna|Mereczowszczyzna]] estate near [[Kosava, Belarus|Kosów]] in [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]], [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], a part of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref name="Herbst, 1969 p. 430." /><ref>[[#WorldPol|Institute of World Politics, 2009]], article.</ref> His exact birthdate is unknown; commonly cited are 4 February<ref name="Herbst, 1969 p. 430.">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]] p. 430.</ref> and 12 February.{{#tag:ref|Alex Storozynski, in his 2009 biography of Kościuszko, notes that the "twelfth is generally used", and that Szyndler (1991:103) discusses theories about Kościuszko's birthdate.<ref>[[#Szyndler|Szyndler, 1994]], p. 103.</ref><ref>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], p. 13.</ref>|group="note"}}

Kościuszko was the youngest son of a member of the ''[[szlachta]]'' (untitled Polish nobility), Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko, an officer in the [[Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army]], and his wife [[:File:Kołtonowski Tekla Kościuszkowa.jpg|Tekla Ratomska]].<ref name="Herbst431">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]] p. 431.</ref> The family held the Polish ''[[Roch III coat of arms]]''.<ref>[[#Szyndler1991|Szyndler, 1991]], p. 476.</ref> At the time of Tadeusz Kościuszko's birth, the family possessed modest landholdings in the Grand Duchy worked by 31 peasant families.<ref name="Lituanus" /><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 2.</ref>[[File:Maračoŭščyna, Kaściuška. Марачоўшчына, Касьцюшка (L. Bichebois, 1848).jpg|thumb|Mereczowszczyzna manor where Kościuszko was born in 1746]]

Tadeusz was baptized in the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] church, thereby receiving the names ''Andrzej'', ''Tadeusz'', and ''Bonawentura''.<ref>[[#Szyndler1991|Szyndler, 1991]], p. 27.</ref><ref name="krol">[[#Krol|Krol, 2005]], Public address.</ref><ref>[[#Gardner|Gardner, 1920]] p. 317.</ref><ref>[[#Kajencki|Kajencki, 1998]], p. 54.</ref> His paternal family was originally [[Ruthenians|Ruthenian]]<ref name="Lituanus">[[#Cizauskas|Cizauskas 1986]], pp. 1–10.</ref> and traced their ancestry to Konstanty Fiodorowicz Kostiuszko, a courtier of [[List of Polish monarchs|Polish King]] and [[List of rulers of Lithuania|Grand Duke of Lithuania]] [[Sigismund I the Old]].<ref>[[#Korzon|Korzon, 1894]], p. 135.</ref> Kościuszko's maternal family, the Ratomskis, were also Ruthenian.<ref name="Новости">[[#Новости|''Новости'' [''Novosti''], 2009]], p. 317.</ref>

[[File:Warszawaio6.jpg|thumb|[[Warsaw]]'s [[Kazimierz Palace]], where Kościuszko attended the [[Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)|Corps of Cadets]]]]
His family had become [[Polonization|Polonized]] as early as the 16th century.<ref>[[#Aristocrats|100 Great Aristocrats]], Essay.</ref> Like most Polish–Lithuanian nobility of the time, the Kościuszkos spoke [[Polish language|Polish]] and identified with [[Culture of Poland|Polish culture]].<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 27.</ref> Kościuszko also, as was common for Polish nobility in the region,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-15 |title=Oczywista Nieoczywistość- jedna macierz, wiele nacji… - Jaworzno - Portal Społecznościowy - jaw.pl |url=https://jaw.pl/2021/05/oczywista-nieoczywistosc-jedna-macierz-wiele-nacji/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |language=pl-PL}}</ref> clearly stressed his attachment to the multiethnic Identity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in later letters.<ref name="Kuolys">{{cite web |last1=Kuolys |first1=Darius |title=Tadas Kosciuška |url=http://www.xn--altiniai-4wb.info/index/details/971 |website=Šaltiniai.info |publisher= |access-date=2 October 2023 |language=lt |quote="Jei tai jūsų nesuminkštins ir neiškelsite mano reikalo Seime, kad galėčiau grįžti, aš pats turbūt, Dievas mato, pasidarysiu sau ką nors bloga, nes pyktis mane ima dėl to, kad būdamas iš Lietuvos tarnauju [Lenkijos] Karalystei, kai jūs trijų generolų neturite. (...) Lietuva! Mano kraštiečiai ir gentainiai! Gimiau jūsų žemėje, nuoširdžia meile mano tėvynei atsišaukia manyje ypatingas palankumas tiems, tarp kurių pradėjau gyvenimą.}}</ref> For example, in 1790 Kościuszko wrote "If this does not soften you and you do not raise my case in the Sejm so that I can return, I myself will probably, God sees, do something bad to myself, as I am angry because being from Lithuania I serve the Kingdom [of Poland] when you do not have three generals", while during the Uprising of 1794 Kościuszko wrote "Lithuania! My countrymen and tribesmen! I was born in your land, sincere love for my homeland evokes in me a special favor for those among whom I began my life".<ref name="Kuolys"/>

In 1755, Kościuszko began attending school in [[Liubeshiv|Lubieszów]] but never finished due to his family's financial straits after his father's death in 1758. King [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] established a [[Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)|Corps of Cadets]] (''Korpus Kadetów'') in 1765, at what is now [[University of Warsaw|Warsaw University]], to educate [[Officer (armed forces)|military officers]] and government officials. Kościuszko enrolled in the Corps on 18 December 1765, likely thanks to the [[Czartoryski|Czartoryski family's patronage]]. The school emphasized military subjects and the [[Liberal arts education|liberal arts]],<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 28.</ref> and after graduating on 20 December 1766, Kościuszko was promoted to ''[[chorąży]]'', a military rank roughly equivalent to modern [[lieutenant]]. He stayed on as a student instructor and, by 1768, had attained the rank of [[Captain (armed forces)|captain]].<ref name="Herbst431" />

===European travels===
In 1768, civil war broke out in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, when the [[Bar Confederation]] sought to depose King Stanisław August Poniatowski. One of Kościuszko's brothers, Józef, fought on the side of the insurgents. Faced with a difficult choice between the rebels and his sponsors—the King and the Czartoryski family, who favored a gradualist approach to shedding Russian domination—Kościuszko chose to leave Poland. In late 1769, he and a colleague, artist [[Aleksander Orłowski]], were granted royal scholarships; on 5 October, they embarked for Paris. They wanted to further their military education. As foreigners, they were barred from enrolling in French military academies, and so they enrolled in the [[Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture|Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture]].<ref name="Herbst431" /> There Kościuszko pursued his interest in drawing and painting and took private lessons in architecture from architect [[Jean-Rodolphe Perronet]].<ref>[[#Gardner|Gardner, 1942]], p. 17.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Sketches from Kościuszko's hand still survive and are guarded as national treasures in Polish museums.|group="note"}}

Kościuszko did not give up on improving his military knowledge.  He audited lectures for five years and frequented the libraries of the Paris military academies. His exposure to the French [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], along with the [[Toleration|religious tolerance]] practised in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, strongly influenced his later career. The French economic theory of [[physiocracy]] made a particularly strong impression on his thinking.<ref name="Storozynski pp. 17–18.">[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], pp. 17–18.</ref> He also developed his artistic skills, and while his career took him in a different direction, all his life he continued drawing and painting.<ref name="Herbst431" /><ref>[[#NPS2009|NPS, 2009]], Essay.</ref>

In the [[First Partition of Poland|First Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] in 1772, [[Russian Empire|Russia]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], and [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]] annexed large swaths of Commonwealth territory and gained influence over the internal politics. When Kościuszko returned home in 1774, he found that his brother Józef had squandered most of the family fortune, and there was no place for him in the Army, as he could not afford to buy an officer's commission.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 32.</ref> <!--He also had to deal with a legal dispute involving a brother.<ref name="Herbst431"/> "unimportant, commenting out per FAC review – can be expanded perhaps one day" --> He took a position as tutor to the family of the [[Magnates of Poland and Lithuania|magnate]], [[Voivode|province governor]] (voivode) and [[hetman]] [[Józef Sylwester Sosnowski]] and fell in love with the governor's daughter [[Ludwika Sosnowska|Ludwika]].{{#tag:ref|After he returned to Poland from America and sought a Polish Army commission, the then-Princess Lubomirska—she had been forced by her father to marry into the higher nobility—urged the King to offer Kościuszko a commission.  When he went to Warsaw in the summer of 1789 to pursue the matter, he encountered her at a ball.  As his friend [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]] later recounted, "The meeting was so emotional [for both] that they were unable to speak to each other; each moved away to a different corner of the ''[[Drawing room|salon]]'' and wept."<ref>[[#Makowski|Makowski, 2013]], p. 14.</ref> In 1791, he sought to marry Tekla Zurowska, but again met paternal opposition.{{sfn|Bain|1911|p=914}}|group="note"}}  Their elopement was thwarted by her father's retainers.<ref name="Herbst431" /> Kościuszko received a thrashing at their hands, an event that may have led to his antipathy for class distinctions.<ref name="Lituanus" />

In the autumn of 1775 he emigrated to avoid Sosnowski and his retainers.<ref name="Herbst431" /> In late 1775 he attempted to join the [[Saxony|Saxon]] army but was turned down and decided to return to Paris.<ref name="Herbst431" /> There he learned of the [[American Revolutionary War]] outbreak, in which the British colonies in North America had revolted against the British Crown and begun their struggle for independence. The first American successes were well-publicized in France, and the French people and government openly supported the revolutionaries' cause.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 36–38.</ref>

==American Revolutionary War==
On learning of the American Revolution, Kościuszko, a man of revolutionary aspirations, sympathetic to the American cause and an advocate of [[human rights]], sailed for the Americas in June 1776 along with other foreign officers, likely with the help of a French supporter of the American revolutionaries, [[Pierre Beaumarchais]].<ref name="Herbst431" /><ref name="Storozynski pp. 17–18." /> After finally arriving in Philadelphia (after a Caribbean shipwreck) he sought out [[Benjamin Franklin]] at his print shop; offering to take engineering subject exams (in lieu of any letters of recommendation), he received a high mark on a geometry exam and Franklin's recommendation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/polish-patriot-who-helped-americans-beat-british-180962430/ |title=The Polish Patriot Who Helped Americans Beat the British |first=Erick |last=Trickey |date=March 8, 2017 |publisher=Smithsonian Magazine }}</ref>  On 30 August 1776, Kościuszko submitted an application to the [[Second Continental Congress]] at the [[Independence Hall|Pennsylvania State House]], and was assigned to the [[Continental Army]] the next day.<ref name="Herbst431" />

===Northern region===
[[File:Remains of Ft. Clinton, NY.JPG|thumb|[[Fort Clinton (West Point)]], fortified by Kościuszko, honored by a statue in background]]

Kościuszko's first task was building fortifications at [[Fort Billingsport]] in [[Paulsboro, New Jersey|Paulsboro]], [[New Jersey]], to protect the banks of the [[Delaware River]] and prevent a possible [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] advance up the river to Philadelphia.<ref name="Billingsport">[[#Colimore|Colimore]], news article.</ref> He initially served as a volunteer in the private employ of Benjamin Franklin, but on 18 October 1776, Congress commissioned him a colonel of engineers in the Continental Army.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 41–42.</ref>

In spring 1777, Kościuszko was attached to the [[Departments of the Continental Army|Northern Army]] under [[Major general (United States)|Major General]] [[Horatio Gates]], arriving at the Canada–U.S. border in May 1777. Subsequently, posted to [[Fort Ticonderoga]], he reviewed the defenses of what had been one of the most formidable fortresses in North America.<ref name="Herbst431"/><ref name="Storozynski47–52">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 47–52.</ref> His surveys prompted him to strongly recommend the construction of a battery on [[Mount Defiance (New York)|Sugar Loaf]], a high point overlooking the fort.<ref name="Storozynski47–52"/> His prudent recommendation, in which his fellow engineers concurred, was turned down by the garrison commander, Brigadier General [[Arthur St. Clair]].<ref name="Herbst431"/><ref name="Storozynski47–52"/>

This proved a tactical blunder: when a British army under Major General [[John Burgoyne]] arrived in July 1777, Burgoyne did exactly what Kościuszko had warned of, and had his engineers place [[artillery]] on the hill.<ref name="Storozynski47–52"/> With the British in complete control of the high ground, the Americans realized their situation was hopeless and abandoned the fortress with hardly a shot fired in the [[Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)|siege of Ticonderoga]].<ref name="Storozynski47–52"/> The British advance force nipped hard on the heels of the outnumbered and exhausted Continentals as they fled south. Major General [[Philip Schuyler]], desperate to put distance between his men and their pursuers, ordered Kościuszko to delay the enemy.<ref name="Storozynski53–54">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 53–54.</ref>  Kościuszko designed an engineer's solution: his men felled trees, dammed streams, and destroyed bridges and [[causeway]]s.<ref name="Storozynski53–54"/> Encumbered by their huge supply train, the British began to bog down, giving the Americans the time needed to safely withdraw across the [[Hudson River]].<ref name="Storozynski53–54"/>

Gates tapped Kościuszko to survey the country between the opposing armies, choose the most defensible position, and fortify it. Finding just such a spot near [[Saratoga, New York|Saratoga]], overlooking the Hudson at [[Battles of Saratoga|Bemis Heights]], Kościuszko laid out a robust array of defenses, nearly impregnable. His judgment and meticulous attention to detail frustrated the British attacks during the [[Battles of Saratoga|Battle of Saratoga]],<ref name="Herbst431"/> and Gates accepted the surrender of Burgoyne's [[Convention Army|force]] there on 16 October 1777.<ref name="AfflerbachStrachan2012">[[#Afflerbach|Afflerbach, 2012]], pp. 177–79.</ref> The dwindling British army had been dealt a sound defeat, turning the tide to American advantage.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 65.</ref>  Kościuszko's work at Saratoga received great praise from Gates, who later told his friend, Dr. [[Benjamin Rush]]: "The great tacticians of the campaign were hills and forests, which a young Polish engineer was skillful enough to select for my encampment."<ref name="Herbst431"/>

At some point in 1777, Kościuszko composed a [[polonaise]] and scored it for the [[harpsichord]]. Named for him, and with lyrics by [[Rajnold Suchodolski]], it later became popular with Polish patriots during the [[November Uprising|November 1830 Uprising]].<ref name="usc">[[#Anderton|Anderton, 2002]], Vol. 5, No. 2.</ref> Around that time, Kościuszko was assigned an [[African Americans|African American]] orderly, [[Agrippa Hull]], whom he treated as an equal and a friend.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 111–12.</ref>

In March 1778, Kościuszko arrived at [[United States Military Academy|West Point, New York]], and spent more than two years<ref>[[#Hunt|U.S.Government Printing Office, 1922]].</ref> strengthening the fortifications and improving the stronghold's defenses.<ref name="Herbst432">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 43.</ref><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 85.</ref>  It was these defenses that the American General [[Benedict Arnold]] subsequently attempted to surrender to the British when he defected.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 128–30.</ref>  Soon after Kościuszko finished fortifying West Point, in August 1780, General [[George Washington]] granted Kościuszko's request to transfer to combat duty with the Southern Army. Kościuszko's West Point fortifications were widely praised as innovative for the time.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 131–32.</ref><ref>[[#Palmer|Palmer, 1976]], pp. 171–74.</ref>

===Southern region===
[[File:Tadeusz Kościuszko.PNG|thumb|Portrait by [[Kazimierz Wojniakowski]]]]

After travelling south through rural [[Virginia]] in October 1780, Kościuszko proceeded to [[North Carolina]] to report to his former commander General Gates.<ref name="Herbst432"/> Following Gates's disastrous defeat at [[Battle of Camden|Camden]] on 16 August 1780, the [[Continental Congress]] selected Washington's choice, Major General [[Nathanael Greene]], to replace Gates as commander of the Southern Department.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 141–42.</ref> When Greene formally assumed command on 3 December 1780, he retained Kościuszko as his chief engineer. By then, he had been praised by both Gates and Greene.<ref name="Herbst432"/>

During this campaign, Kościuszko was placed in command of building [[bateau]]x, siting the location for camps, scouting river crossings, fortifying positions, and developing intelligence contacts. Many of his contributions were instrumental in preventing the destruction of the Southern Army.  This was especially so during the [[Nathanael Greene#The race to the Dan River|"Race to the Dan"]], when British General [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Charles Cornwallis]] chased Greene across {{convert|200|mi}} of rough backcountry in January and February 1781. Thanks largely to a combination of Greene's tactics, Kościuszko's bateaux, and accurate scouting of the rivers ahead of the main body, the Continentals safely crossed each river, including the [[Yadkin River|Yadkin]] and the [[Dan River (Virginia)|Dan]].<ref name="Herbst432"/> Cornwallis, having no boats, and finding no way to cross the swollen Dan, abandoned the chase and withdrew into North Carolina. The Continentals regrouped south of [[Halifax, Virginia]], where Kościuszko had earlier, at Greene's request, established a fortified depot.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 144–46.</ref>

During the Race to the Dan, Kościuszko had helped select the site where Greene eventually returned to fight Cornwallis at [[Battle of Guilford Court House|Guilford Courthouse]].  Though tactically defeated, the Americans all but destroyed Cornwallis's army as an effective fighting force and gained a permanent strategic advantage in the South.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 147.</ref>  Thus, when Greene began his reconquest of [[South Carolina]] in the spring of 1781, he summoned Kościuszko to rejoin the main body of the Southern Army.  The combined forces of the Continentals and Southern [[militia]] gradually forced the British from the backcountry into the coastal ports during the latter half of 1781 and, on 25 April, Kościuszko participated in the [[Battle of Hobkirk's Hill|Second Battle of Camden]].<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 148.</ref>  At [[Ninety Six, South Carolina|Ninety-Six]], Kościuszko [[Siege of Ninety-Six|besieged the Star Fort]] from 22 May to 18 June.  During the unsuccessful siege, he suffered his only wound in seven years of service, [[bayonet]]ted in the buttocks during an assault by the fort's defenders on the approach trench that he was constructing.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 149–53.</ref>

Kościuszko subsequently helped fortify the American bases in North Carolina,<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 154.</ref> before taking part in several smaller operations in the final year of hostilities, harassing British foraging parties near [[Charleston, South Carolina]].  After the death of his friend, Colonel [[John Laurens]], Kościuszko became engaged in these operations, taking over Laurens's intelligence network in the area. He commanded two cavalry squadrons and an infantry unit, and his last known battlefield command of the war occurred at [[James Island, South Carolina]], on 14 November 1782. In what has been described as [[Battle of James Island|the Continental Army's final armed action of the war]],<ref>[[#Kajencki|Kajencki, 1998]], p. 174.</ref> he was nearly killed as his small force was routed.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 158–60.</ref>  A month later, he was among the Continental troops that reoccupied Charleston following the city's British evacuation. Kościuszko spent the rest of the war there, conducting a fireworks display on 23 April 1783, to celebrate the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] earlier that month.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 161–62.</ref>

===Leaving for home===
Having not been paid in his seven years of service, in late May 1783, Kościuszko decided to collect the salary owed to him.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 163.</ref> That year, he was asked by [[United States Congress|Congress]] to supervise the fireworks during the [[Independence Day (United States)|4 July]] celebrations at [[Princeton, New Jersey]].<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 164.</ref> On 13 October 1783, Congress promoted him to brigadier general, but he still had not received his back pay. Many other officers and soldiers were in the same situation.<ref>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], p. 114.</ref> While waiting for his pay, unable to finance a voyage back to Europe, Kościuszko, like several others, lived on money borrowed from the Polish–Jewish banker [[Haym Salomon|Haym Solomon]]. Eventually, he received a certificate for 12,280 dollars, at 6%, to be paid on 1 January 1784 (equivalent to ~$323,000, paid as installments ~$19,400 a month in 2022), and the right to {{convert|500|acre|ha sqmi|2}} of land, but only if he chose to settle in the United States.<ref name="Storozynski166–167">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 166–67.</ref> 

For the winter of 1783–84, his former commanding officer, General Greene, invited Kościuszko to stay at his mansion.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 168.</ref> He was inducted into the [[Society of the Cincinnati]]<ref name="Herbst432"/><ref>[[#Gardner|Gardner, 1920]] p. 31</ref> and into the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1785.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Thaddeus+Kosciusko&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=14 December 2020|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> During the Revolution, Kościuszko carried an old Spanish sword at his side, which was inscribed with the words ''Do not draw me without reason; do not sheathe me without honour.''<ref>[[#lengel|Lengel, 2017]], p. 105</ref>

==Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth==
[[File:Joseph Grassi Kosciuszko.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait by [[Josef Grassi]], 1792]]

On 15 July 1784, Kościuszko set off for Poland, where he arrived on 26 August. Due to a conflict between his patrons, the [[Czartoryski|Czartoryski family]], and King Stanisław August Poniatowski, Kościuszko once again failed to get a commission in the Commonwealth Army. He settled in a small town called Siechnowicze.<ref name="Herbst432"/> His brother Józef had lost most of the family's lands through bad investments, but with the help of his sister Anna, Kościuszko secured part of the lands for himself.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 177.</ref>  He decided to limit his male peasants' ''[[corvée]]'' (obligatory service to the lord of the manor) to two days a week and completely exempted the female peasants. His estate soon stopped being profitable, and he began going into debt.<ref name="Herbst432"/> The situation was not helped by the failure of the money promised by the American government—interest on late payment for his seven years' military service—to materialize.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 178.</ref> Kościuszko struck up friendships with liberal activists; [[Hugo Kołłątaj]] offered him a position as lecturer at Kraków's [[Jagiellonian University]], which Kościuszko declined.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 181.</ref>

The [[Great Sejm]] of 1788–1792 introduced some reforms, including a planned build-up of the army to defend the Commonwealth's borders. Kościuszko saw a chance to return to military service and spent some time in Warsaw, among those who engaged in the political debates outside the Great Sejm. He wrote a proposal to create a militia force, on the American model.<ref name="Herbst432"/><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 187.</ref>  As political pressure grew to build up the army, and Kościuszko's political allies gained influence with the King, Kościuszko again applied for a commission, and on 12 October 1789, received a royal commission as a [[major general]], but to Kosciuszko's dismay<ref name=":0">Niezwykle też rozdrażnienie odbiło się w liście, pisanym do generała Niesiołowskiego z Włocławka d. 7 lutego 1790 r.:
, Zaklinam na wszystko, co jest w życiu najmilszego, to jest żoneczkę i dziatki . . . abyś chciał JWPan Dobrodziej wyrwać mnie z miejsca tak nieprzyjemnego, kosztownego i nic jeszcze nic mającego. Bóg widzi: słowa nie mam do kogo przemówić - i dobrze, bo z wołami nigdy nie gadałem. Co za Gaskony ! Ale dam pokój opisywać krajowych;  powiem tylko, że kraj piękny i tenby być powinien dla poczciwych i gospodarnych Litwinów przeznaczonym, a nie dla nich, gnuśnych i niedbałych. Chciejcie mnie powrócić do Litwy; chyba się wyrzekacie mnie i niezdolnym widzicie do służenia wam? Któż jestem? Azali nie Litwin, śpółrodak wasz, od was wybrany? Komuż mam wdzięczność okazywać (za rekomendacyę sejmiku brzeskiego?), jeżeli nie wam? Kogo mam bronić, jeżeli nie was i siebie samego?  Jeżeli to was nie zmiękczy do wniesienia o mnie na Sejmie, abym powrócił: to ja, sam chyba, Bóg widzi, co złego sobie zrobię ! no złość mnie bierze:  z Litwy abym w Koronie służyl,  gdy wy nie macie trzech generałów. Kiedy was nizać na sznurku będzie przemoc, wtenczas chyba ockniecie się i o siebie dbać będziecie"

from Siemieński's "Listy Kościuszki", no. 62, p. 162 and p. 206 of the book "Kościuszko. Biografia z dokumentów wysnuta" by Tadeusz Korzon.</ref> in the Army of the Kingdom of Poland.<ref name="Herbst432" />

He began receiving a high salary of 12,000 [[Polish zloty|zlotys]] a year, ending his financial difficulties. On 1 February 1790, he reported for duty in [[Włocławek]], and wrote in a letter after a few days, calling the local inhabitants "lazy" and "careless", in contrast to "good and economical Lithuanians". In the same letter, Kosciuszko begged general [[Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski]] for a transfer to the Army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but his wishes were not granted.<ref name=":0" /> Around summer, he commanded some infantry and cavalry units in the region between the [[Bug (river)|Bug]] and [[Vistula|Vistula Rivers]]. In August 1790 he was posted to [[Volhynia]], stationed near [[Starokostiantyniv]] and [[Międzyborze, Greater Poland Voivodeship|Międzyborze]].<ref name="Herbst432"/> Prince [[Józef Poniatowski]], who was the King's nephew, recognized Kościuszko's superior experience and made him his second-in-command, leaving him in command when he was absent.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 203.</ref>

Meanwhile, Kościuszko became more closely involved with political reformers such as Hugo Kołłątaj, [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]] and others.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 194.</ref>  Kościuszko argued that the peasants and Jews should receive full citizenship status, as this would motivate them to help defend Poland in the event of war.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 195.</ref>  The political reformers centered in the [[Patriotic Party]] scored a significant victory with adopting the [[Constitution of 3 May 1791]]. Kościuszko saw the Constitution as a step in the right direction, but was disappointed that it retained the monarchy and did little to improve the situation of the most underprivileged, the peasants and the Jews.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 213–14.</ref>  The Commonwealth's neighbors saw the Constitution's reforms as a threat to their influence over Polish internal affairs. A year after the Constitution's adoption, on 14 May 1792, reactionary magnates formed the [[Targowica Confederation]], which asked Russia's [[Catherine the Great|Tsaritsa Catherine II]] for help in overthrowing the Constitution. Four days later, on 18 May 1792, a 100,000-man Russian army crossed the Polish border, headed for Warsaw, beginning the [[Polish–Russian War of 1792]].<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 218–23.</ref>

===Defense of the Constitution===
[[File:Tadeusz Kośiuszko during battle of Racławice.PNG|thumb|''Kościuszko'', by [[Juliusz Kossak]]]]

The Russians had a 3:1 advantage in strength, with some 98,000 troops against 37,000 Poles;<ref>[[#Bardach|Bardach, 1987]], p. 317.</ref> they also had an advantage in combat experience.<ref name="Storozynski223">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 223.</ref>  Before the Russians invaded, Kościuszko had been appointed deputy commander of Prince Józef Poniatowski's infantry division, stationed in [[Western Ukraine|West Ukraine]]. When the Prince became [[Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-Chief]] of the entire Polish (Crown) Army on 3 May 1792, Kościuszko was given command of a division near [[Kyiv|Kiev]].<ref name="Herbst433">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 433.</ref>

The Russians attacked a wide front with three armies. Kościuszko proposed that the entire Polish army be concentrated and engage one of the Russian armies, to assure numerical parity and boost the morale of the most inexperienced Polish forces with a quick victory; but Poniatowski rejected this plan.<ref name="Storozynski223"/>  On 22 May 1792, the Russian forces crossed the border in Ukraine, where Kościuszko and Poniatowski were stationed. The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four enemy columns advancing into West Ukraine, and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the [[Southern Bug|Southern Bug River]], with Kościuszko commanding the rear guard.<ref name="Herbst433"/><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 224.</ref>

On 18 June, Poniatowski won the [[Battle of Zieleńce]]; Kościuszko's division, on detached rear-guard duty, did not take part in the battle and rejoined the main army only at nightfall. His diligent protection of the main army's rear and flanks won him the newly created [[Virtuti Militari]], to this day Poland's highest military decoration. Storożyński states that Kościuszko received the Virtuti Militari for his later, 18 July victory at [[Dubienka]].<ref name="Herbst433"/><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 230.</ref> The Polish withdrawal continued, and on 7 July Kościuszko's forces fought a delaying battle against the Russians at [[Volodymyr-Volynskyi]], the Battle of Włodzimierz. On reaching the northern Bug River, the Polish Army was split into three divisions to hold the river defensive line—weakening the Poles' point of numerical superiority, against Kościuszko's counsel of a single strong, concentrated army.<ref name="Herbst433"/>

Kościuszko's force was assigned to protect the front's southern flank, touching up to the Austrian border. At the [[Battle of Dubienka]] (18 July 1792), Kościuszko repulsed a numerically superior enemy, skilfully using terrain obstacles and field fortifications, and came to be regarded as one of Poland's most brilliant military commanders of the age.<ref name="Herbst433"/> With some 5,300 men, he was confront 25,000 Russians led by General [[Mikhail Kakhovsky|Michail Kachovski]].<ref name="Storozynski228–229">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 228–29.</ref> Kościuszko had to retreat from Dubienka, as the Russians crossed the nearby Austrian border and began flanking his positions. <ref name="Storozynski228–229"/> Russians won the battle. <ref> Konstantin Karl Falkenstein. Thaddäus Kosciuszko. - Leipzig, 1834 (2. Aufl.). - source: The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 15 (March—July 1835) - P. 117. https://books.google.ru/books?id=pZsYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>

After the battle, <!-- On 1 August 1792, need source for that date-->King Stanisław August Poniatowski promoted Kościuszko to [[Lieutenant general|lieutenant-general]] and also offered him the [[Order of the White Eagle (Poland)|Order of the White Eagle]], but Kościuszko, a convinced republican would not accept a royal honor.<ref name="Otrębski1994">[[#Otrębski|Otrębski, 1994]], p. 39.</ref><ref name="Falkenstein1831">[[#Falkenstein|Falkenstein, 1831]], p. 8.</ref> News of Kościuszko's victory spread over Europe, and on 26 August he received the [[List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution|honorary citizenship of France]] from the [[National Legislative Assembly (France)|Legislative Assembly]] of [[French Revolution|revolutionary France]]. While Kościuszko considered the war's outcome to still be unsettled, the King requested a ceasefire.<ref name="Herbst433"/><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 231.</ref>  On 24 July 1792, before Kościuszko had received his promotion to lieutenant-general, the King shocked the army by announcing his accession to the Targowica Confederation and ordering the Polish–Lithuanian troops to cease hostilities against the Russians. Kościuszko considered abducting the King as the [[Bar Confederation|Bar Confederates]] had done two decades earlier, in 1771, but was dissuaded by Prince Józef Poniatowski. On 30 August, Kościuszko resigned from his army position and briefly returned to Warsaw, where he received his promotion and pay, but refused the King's request to remain in the Army. Around that time, he also fell ill with [[jaundice]].<ref name="Herbst433"/>

==Émigré==
[[File:Kosciuszko (5871133) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Kościuszko wearing the [[Virtuti Militari]] and, below it, the Eagle of [[Society of the Cincinnati|the Cincinnati]]]]

The King's capitulation was a hard blow for Kościuszko, who had not lost a single battle in the campaign. By mid-September 1792, he was resigned to leaving the country, and in early October, he departed from Warsaw. First, he went east, to the Czartoryski family manor at [[Sieniawa]], which gathered various malcontents. In mid-November, he spent two weeks in [[Lwów]], where he was welcomed by the populace. Since the war's end, his presence had drawn crowds eager to see the famed commander. [[Izabela Czartoryska]] discussed having him marry her daughter [[Zofia Czartoryska|Zofia]].<ref name="Herbst433"/><ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 237.</ref> The Russians planned to arrest him if he returned to territory under their control; the Austrians, who [[Austrian Partition|held Lwów]], offered him a commission in the Austrian Army, which he turned down.<ref name="Storozynski pp. 239–40.">[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 239–40.</ref> Subsequently, they planned to deport him, but he left Lwów before they could do so. At the turn of the month, he stopped in [[Zamość]] at the [[Zamoyski family|Zamoyskis']] estate, met [[Stanisław Staszic]], then went on to [[Puławy]].<ref name="Herbst433"/><ref name="Storozynski pp. 239–40."/>

He did not tarry there for long: on 12–13 December, he was in Kraków; on 17 December, in [[Wrocław]]; and shortly after, he settled in [[Leipzig]], where many notable Polish soldiers and politicians formed an émigré community.<ref name="Herbst433"/> Soon he and some others began plotting an uprising against Russian rule in Poland.<ref name="Herbst434">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 434.</ref> The politicians, grouped around [[Ignacy Potocki]] and Hugo Kołłątaj, sought contacts with similar opposition groups in Poland and by spring 1793 had been joined by other politicians and revolutionaries, including [[Ignacy Działyński]]. While Kołłątaj and others had begun planning an uprising before Kościuszko joined them, his support was a significant boon to them, as he was among the most famous individuals in Poland.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 238.</ref> 

After two weeks in Leipzig, before the second week of January 1793, Kościuszko set off for Paris, where he tried to gain French support for Poland's planned uprising. He stayed there until summer, but despite the growing revolutionary influence, the French paid only lip service to the Polish cause and refused to commit themselves to anything concrete.<ref name="Herbst434" /> Kościuszko concluded that the French authorities were not interested in Poland beyond what use it could have for their cause, and he was increasingly disappointed in the pettiness of the [[French Revolution]]—the infighting among different factions, and the growing [[Reign of Terror|reign of terror]].<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]] pp. 244–45.</ref>

On 23 January 1793, Prussia and Russia signed the [[Partitions of Poland|Second Partition of Poland]]. The [[Grodno Sejm]], convened under duress in June, ratified the partition and was also forced to rescind the Constitution of 3 May 1791.<ref name="Lukowski101–103">[[#Lukowski2001|Lukowski, 2001]], pp. 101–3.</ref><ref name="Sužiedėlis2011">[[#Sužiedėlis|Sužiedėlis, 1944]], pp. 292–93.</ref> With the second partition, Poland became a small country of roughly {{convert|200000|sqkm|sp=us}}<ref name="God's Playground. A History of Poland. The Origins to 1795">[[#Davies|Davies, 2005]], p. 394.</ref> and a population of some 4&nbsp;million.<ref name="Lukowski101–103"/> This came as a shock to the Targowica Confederates, who had seen themselves as defenders of centuries-old privileges of the magnates but had hardly expected that their appeal for help to the Tsarina of Russia would further reduce and weaken their country.<ref name="Sužiedėlis2011"/><ref>[[#Stone|Stone, 2001]], pp. 282–85.</ref>

In August 1793, Kościuszko, though worried that an uprising would have little chance against the three partitioning powers, returned to Leipzig, where he was met with demands to start planning one as soon as possible.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 245.</ref> In September he clandestinely crossed the Polish border to conduct personal observations and meet with sympathetic high-ranking officers in the residual Polish Army, including General Józef Wodzicki. The preparations went slowly, and he left for Italy,{{why|date=April 2023}} planning to return in February 1794. However, the situation in Poland was changing rapidly. The Russian and Prussian governments forced Poland to again disband most of her army, and the reduced units were to be incorporated into the Russian Army. In March, Tsarist agents discovered the revolutionaries in Warsaw and began arresting notable Polish politicians and military commanders. Kościuszko was forced to execute his plan earlier than he had intended and, on 15 March 1794, set off for Kraków.<ref name="Herbst434"/>

==Kościuszko Uprising==
{{Main|Kościuszko Uprising}}
[[File:Kosciuszko pod Raclawicami.jpg|thumb|Kościuszko and his peasant [[war scythe|scythemen]], from [[Jan Matejko|Matejko]]'s ''[[Battle of Racławice]]'']]

Learning that the Russian garrison had departed Kraków, Kościuszko entered the city on the night of 23 March 1794. The next morning, in [[Main Square, Kraków|the Main Square]], he announced an uprising.<ref name="Herbst434"/>  Kościuszko received the title of ''Naczelnik'' (commander-in-chief) of Polish–Lithuanian forces fighting against the Russian occupation.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 252.</ref>

Kościuszko gathered an army of some 6,000, including 4,000 regular soldiers and 2,000 recruits, and marched on Warsaw.<ref name="Herbst434"/> The Russians succeeded in organizing an army to oppose him more quickly than he had expected. Still, he scored a [[Battle of Racławice|victory at Racławice]] on 4 April 1794, where he turned the tide by personally leading an infantry charge of peasant volunteers (''[[Scythemen|kosynierzy]]'', scythemen). Nonetheless, this Russian defeat was not strategically significant, and the Russian forces quickly forced Kościuszko to retreat toward Kraków. Near [[Połaniec]] he received reinforcements and met with other Uprising leaders (Kołłątaj, Potocki); at Połaniec he issued a major political declaration of the Uprising, the [[Proclamation of Połaniec]]. The declaration stated that serfs were entitled to civil rights and reduced their work obligations (corvée).<ref name="Herbst435">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 435.</ref>  Meanwhile, the Russians set a [[Bounty (reward)|bounty]] for Kościuszko's capture, "dead or alive".<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 283.</ref>

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By June, the Prussians had begun actively aiding the Russians, and on 6 June 1794, Kościuszko fought a defensive battle against a Prussian–Russian force at [[Battle of Szczekociny|Szczekociny]].<ref name="Herbst435"/> From late June, for several weeks, he [[Siege of Warsaw (1794)|defended Warsaw]], controlled by the insurgents. On 28 June, a mob of insurgents in Warsaw captured and hanged Bishop [[Ignacy Jakub Massalski|Ignacy Massalski]] and six others. Kościuszko issued a public reproach, writing, "What happened in Warsaw yesterday filled my heart with bitterness and sorrow", urging, successfully for no more lynchings in the area.<ref>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], pp. 195–96.</ref> 

By the morning of 6 September, the Prussian forces having been withdrawn to suppress an [[Greater Poland uprising (1794)|uprising underway in Greater Poland]], the siege of Warsaw was lifted. On 10 October, during a sortie against a new Russian attack, Kościuszko was wounded and captured at [[Battle of Maciejowice|Maciejowice]]. He was imprisoned by the Russians at [[Saint Petersburg]] in the [[Peter and Paul Fortress]].<ref name="Herbst436">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], pp. 435–36.</ref> Soon afterwards, the uprising ended with the [[Battle of Praga]], where, according to a contemporary Russian witness, the Russian troops massacred 20,000 Warsaw residents.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], p. 291.</ref> The subsequent [[Third Partition of Poland]] ended the existence of a sovereign Polish and Lithuanian state for the next 123 years.<ref>[[#Landau|Landau & Tomaszewski, 1985]], p. 27.</ref>

==Later life==
[[File:Thaddeus Koscuiszko National Memorial 301 Pine Street.jpg|thumb|[[Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial|House in Philadelphia]] where Kościuszko stayed in 1797]]

The death of [[Tsarina|Tsaritsa]] [[Catherine the Great]] on 17 November 1796 led to a change in Russia's policies toward Poland.<ref name="Herbst436"/> On 28 November, Tsar [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]], who had hated Catherine, pardoned Kościuszko and set him free after he had tendered an [[loyalty oath|oath of loyalty]]. Paul promised to free all Polish political prisoners held in Russian prisons and those who were forcibly [[Sybirak|settled in Siberia]]. The Tsar gave Kościuszko 12,000 [[Russian ruble|ruble]]s, which the Pole later, in 1798, attempted to return, when also renouncing the oath.<ref name="Herbst437">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 437.</ref>

Kościuszko left for the United States, via [[Stockholm]], Sweden and London, departing from [[Bristol]] on 17 June 1797, and arriving in Philadelphia on 18 August.<ref name="Herbst437"/>  Though welcomed by the populace, he was viewed with suspicion by the American government, controlled by the [[Federalist Party|Federalists]], who distrusted Kościuszko for his previous association with the [[Democratic-Republican Party]].<ref name="Herbst437"/>

In March 1798, Kościuszko received a bundle of letters from Europe. The news in one of them came as a shock to him, causing him, still in his wounded condition, to spring from his couch and limp unassisted to the middle of the room and exclaim to General [[Anthony Walton White]], "I must return at once to Europe!" The letter in question contained news that Polish General [[Jan Henryk Dąbrowski]] and Polish soldiers were fighting in France under Napoleon and that Kościuszko's sister had sent his two nephews in Kościuszko's name to serve in Napoleon's ranks.<ref name=Gardner183/> Around that time, Kościuszko also received news that [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord|Talleyrand]] was seeking Kościuszko's moral and public endorsement for the French fight against one of Poland's partitioners, Prussia.<ref name="Herbst437"/>

The call of family and country drew Kościuszko back to Europe.<ref name=Gardner183>[[#Gardner|Gardner 1942]], p. 183.</ref> He immediately consulted then [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Thomas Jefferson]], who procured a passport for him under a false name and arranged for his secret departure for France. Kościuszko left no word for either Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, his former comrade-in-arms and fellow St. Petersburg prisoner, or for his servant, leaving only some money for them.<ref name=Gardner124>[[#Gardner|Gardner, 1943]], p. 124.</ref><ref>[[#Sulkin|Sulkin, 1944]], p. 48.</ref>

Other factors contributed to his decision to depart. His French connections meant that he was vulnerable to deportation or imprisonment under the terms of the [[Alien and Sedition Acts]].<ref>[[#Nash2012|Nash, Hodges, Russell, 2012]], pp. 161–62.</ref> Jefferson was concerned that the U.S. and France were on the brink of war after the [[XYZ Affair]] and regarded him as an informal envoy. Kościuszko later wrote, "Jefferson considered that I would be the most effective intermediary in bringing an accord with France, so I accepted the mission even if without any official authorization."<ref>[[#Alexander|Alexander, 1968]], article.</ref>

===Disposition of American estate===
{{main|Wills of Tadeusz Kościuszko}}

Before Kościuszko left for France, he collected his back pay, wrote a will, and entrusted it to Jefferson as executor.<ref name="Herbst437"/><ref name=Gardner124/> Kościuszko and Jefferson had become close friends by 1797 and thereafter corresponded for twenty years in a spirit of mutual admiration. Jefferson wrote that "He is as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known."<ref>[[#TJF|Jefferson Foundation: T. Kosciuszko]], essay.</ref> In the will, Kościuszko left his American estate to be sold to buy the freedom of black [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]], including Jefferson's own, and to educate them for independent life and work.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-30-02-0230 | title=Founders Online: Will of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 5 May 1798 }}</ref><ref>[[#Sulkin|Sulkin. 1944]], p. 48.</ref>

Several years after Kościuszko's death, Jefferson, aged 77, pleaded an inability to act as executor due to age<ref name=Stotozynski>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], p. 280.</ref> and the numerous legal complexities of the bequest. It was tied up in the courts until 1856.<ref>[[#Nash2012|Nash, Hodges, Russell, 2012]], p. 218.</ref> Jefferson recommended his friend [[John Hartwell Cocke]], who also opposed slavery, as executor, but Cocke likewise declined to execute the bequest.<ref name=Stotozynski/>

The case of Kościuszko's American estate reached the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] three times.{{#tag:ref|Associate Justice [[Joseph Story]] issued a decision to remand in ''Armstrong v. Lear'', 25 U.S. 12 Wheat. 169 169 (1827), based on failure to submit the will for probate. The same estate was also the subject of ''Estho v Lear'', 32 U.S. 130 (7 Pet. 130, 8 L.Ed. 632)(1832), in which Chief Justice [[John Marshall]] wrote a brief opinion suggesting remand, apparently to Virginia. Finally, the decision in ''Ennis v. Smith'', 55 U.S. 14 How. 400 400 (1852) mentions no individual author; the chief justice was [[Roger Taney]], and the only jurisdictions mentioned were those of [[Maryland]], the [[District of Columbia]], and [[Grodno]].<ref name="ennis"/> |group="note"}} Kościuszko had made four wills, three of which postdated the American one.<ref name=berk>[[#Yiannopoulos|Yiannopoulos, 1958]], p. 256.</ref>

None of the money that Kościuszko had earmarked for the [[manumission]] and education of [[African Americans]] in the United States was ever used for that purpose.<ref>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]], p. 282.</ref> Though the American will was never carried out as defined, its legacy was used to found an educational institute at [[Newark, New Jersey]], in 1826, for African Americans in the United States. It was named for Kościuszko.<ref name=Gardner183/><ref>[[#Nash2012|Nash, Hodges, Russell, 2012]], p. 241.</ref>

===Return to Europe===
[[File:Reinagle Tadeusz Kościuszko.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Portrait by [[Ramsay Richard Reinagle]], 1817]]
[[File:Kosciuszko Museum Solothurn (2).jpg|thumb|Kościuszko's last residence, in [[Solothurn]], Switzerland, where he died]]

Kościuszko arrived in [[Bayonne]], France, on 28 June 1798.<ref name="Herbst437"/> By that time, Talleyrand's plans had changed and no longer included him.<ref name="Herbst437"/> Kościuszko remained politically active in Polish émigré circles in France, and on 7 August 1799, he joined the Society of Polish Republicans (''Towarzystwo Republikanów Polskich'').<ref name="Herbst437"/> Kościuszko refused the offered command of [[Polish Legions (Napoleonic period)|Polish Legions]] being formed for service with France.<ref name="Herbst437"/> On 17 October and 6 November 1799, he met with [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]]. He failed to reach an agreement with the French general, who regarded Kościuszko as a "fool" who "overestimated his influence" in Poland.{{#tag:ref|Letter from Napoleon to his Minister of Police, [[Joseph Fouché]], 1807.|group="note"}}<ref name="Herbst438">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 438.</ref> Kościuszko disliked Napoleon for his dictatorial aspirations and called him the "undertaker of the [French] Republic".<ref name="Herbst437"/> In 1807, Kościuszko settled in château de Berville, near [[La Genevraye]], distancing himself from politics.<ref name="Herbst437"/>

Kościuszko did not believe that Napoleon would restore Poland in any durable form.<ref name="Davies2005–216–217">[[#Davies|Davies, 2005]], pp. 216–17.</ref>  When Napoleon's forces approached the borders of Poland, Kościuszko wrote him a letter, demanding guarantees of [[Parliamentary system|parliamentary democracy]] and substantial national borders, which Napoleon ignored.<ref name="Herbst438"/> Kościuszko concluded that Napoleon had created the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in 1807 only as an expedient, not because he supported Polish sovereignty.<ref name="Davies2005–218">[[#Davies|Davies, 2005]], p. 208.</ref> Consequently, Kościuszko did not move to the Duchy of Warsaw or join the new [[Army of the Duchy of Warsaw|Army of the Duchy]], allied with Napoleon.<ref name="Herbst438"/>

After the fall of Napoleon, he met with Russia's Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]], in Paris and then in [[Braunau am Inn]].<ref name="Herbst438"/> The Tsar hoped that Kościuszko could be convinced to return to Poland, where the Tsar planned to create a new, Russian-allied Polish state (the [[Congress Poland|Congress Kingdom]]). In return for his prospective services, Kościuszko demanded social reforms and restoration of territory, which he wished would reach the [[Daugava|Dvina]] and [[Dnieper|Dnieper Rivers]] in the east.<ref name="Herbst438"/> However, soon afterwards, in [[Vienna]], Kościuszko learned that the [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]] to be created by the Tsar would be even smaller than the earlier Duchy of Warsaw. Kościuszko called such an entity "a joke".<ref name="nonpossumus">[[#Feliks|Feliks]], on line essay.</ref>

On 2 April 1817, Kościuszko emancipated the peasants in his remaining lands in Poland,<ref name="Herbst438"/> but Tsar Alexander disallowed this.<ref name=lq>[[#Cizauskas|Cizauskas, 1986]], journal.</ref> Suffering from poor health and old wounds, Kościuszko died in [[Solothurn]] at age 71 after falling from a horse, developing a fever, and suffering a [[stroke]] a few days later on 15 October 1817.<ref>[[#Storozynski2011|Storozynski, 2011]], pp. 380–81.</ref>

==Funerals==
[[File:Urn with heart of Tadeusz Kościuszko.PNG|thumb|150px|right|Kościuszko's heart, [[Royal Castle, Warsaw]]|alt=Urn with Kościuszko's heart]]

Kościuszko's first funeral was held on 19 October 1817, at a formerly [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] church in [[Solothurn]].<ref name="Herbst438"/><ref>[[#Szyndler1991|Szyndler, 1991]], p. 366.</ref> As news of his death spread, [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Masses]] and memorial services were held in [[History of Poland (1795–1918)|partitioned Poland]].<ref name="kopieckosciuszki">[[#Krakowie|Kościuszko Mound, Essay]].</ref> His [[Embalming|embalmed]] body was deposited in a [[crypt]] of the Solothurn church. In 1818, Kościuszko's body was transferred to Kraków, arriving at [[St. Florian's Church]] on 11 April 1818. On 22 June 1818,<ref name="kopieckosciuszki"/> or 23 June 1819<ref name="Herbst438"/> (accounts vary), to the tolling of the [[The Sigismund Bell|Sigismund Bell]] and the firing of cannon, his body was placed in a crypt at [[Wawel Cathedral]], a [[Pantheon (religion)|pantheon]] of Polish kings and [[Folk hero|national heroes]].<ref name="Herbst438"/><ref name="kopieckosciuszki"/>[[File:Kosciuszko_sarkofag.jpg|thumb|Kościuszko's sarcophagus at [[Wawel Cathedral]]]]

Kościuszko's [[Organ (anatomy)|internal organs]], which had been removed during embalming, were separately interred in a graveyard at [[Zuchwil]], near Solothurn. Kościuszko's organs remain there to this day; a large memorial stone was erected in 1820, next to a Polish memorial chapel. However, his heart was not interred with the other organs but instead kept in an [[urn]] at the [[Polish Museum, Rapperswil|Polish Museum]] in [[Rapperswil]], [[Switzerland]].<ref name="Herbst438" /><ref name="kopieckosciuszki" /> The heart, along with the rest of the Museum's holdings, were repatriated back to [[Warsaw]] in 1927, where the heart now reposes in a chapel at the [[Royal Castle, Warsaw|Royal Castle]].<ref name="Herbst438" /><ref name="kopieckosciuszki" />

==Memorials and tributes==
{{Main|Commemoration of Tadeusz Kościuszko}}[[File:Kosciuszko statue DC.JPG|thumb|Kosciuszko statue in Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., USA.]]
[[File:Monument to Kosciuszko, Belarus.jpg|thumb|Monument of Kosciuszko in [[Mieračoŭščyna]], [[Belarus]].]]

He has been proclaimed and claimed as a National Hero of Poland, the United States of America, Belarus, and Lithuania.

The Polish historian [[Stanisław Herbst]] states in the 1967 ''[[Polish Biographical Dictionary]]'' that Kościuszko may be Poland's and the world's most popular Pole ever.<ref name="Herbst438" /> There are monuments to him around the world, beginning with the [[Kościuszko Mound]] at Kraków, erected in 1820–23 by men, women, and children bringing earth from the battlefields where he had fought.<ref name="Herbst438" /><ref>[[#Nash2012|Nash, Hodges, Russell, 2012]], p. 212.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.euromanticism.org/kosciuszkos-mound/|title = Kościuszko's Mound – European Romanticisms in Association| date=19 June 2020 }}</ref> Bridges named in his honor include the [[Kosciuszko Bridge]] built in 1939 in New York City<ref>[[#NYDOT|New York State Department of Transportation]].</ref> and the [[Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge]] completed in 1959 across the [[Mohawk River]] between Albany and Saratoga counties in upstate New York<ref>[[#Jordan|Capital Highways]].</ref> The New York City bridge was partially replaced in April 2017 by a new bridge of the same name, with an additional bridge that opened in August 2019.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/04/28/new-kosciuszko-bridge-open/|title=First Span Of New Kosciuszko Bridge Open To Traffic|last1=Burrell|first1=Janelle|last2=Adams|first2=Sean|date=28 April 2017|website=CBS New York|access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/nyregion/kosciuszko-bridge-pronounciation.html|title=How Do You Pronounce Kosciuszko? It Depends on Where You're From.|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=28 April 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=29 April 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A commemorative plaque dedicated to Tadeusz Kosciuszko was placed on the newly built bridge in October 2022 by the Polish foundation "Będziem Polakami" (We Will Be Poles)<ref>[https://bedziempolakami.org/ Będziem Polakami]</ref> together with the Dobra Polska Szkoła Foundation from New York with financial support from the Polish government.

Kościuszko's 1796 Philadelphia residence is now the [[Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial]], America's smallest national park or unit of the National Park System.<ref>[[#Memorial|Kosciuszko National Memorial (.gov)]].</ref> There is a [[Kościuszko Museum]] at his last residence, in Solothurn, Switzerland.<ref>[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], pp. 438–39.</ref> A [[Polish Americans|Polish-American]] cultural agency, the [[Kosciuszko Foundation]], headquartered in New York City, was created in 1925.<ref>[[#K.F.|The Kosciuszko Foundation, Mission and History]].</ref>

A series of [[Polish Air Force]] units have borne the name "[[Kościuszko's Squadron|Kościuszko Squadron]]". During World War II a [[Polish Navy]] ship bore his name, as did the [[1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division|Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division]].<ref name="Herbst, 1969 p. 439.">[[#Herbst|Herbst, 1969]], p. 439.</ref>

One of the first examples of a [[historical fiction|historical novel]], ''[[Thaddeus of Warsaw]]'', was written in Kościuszko's honor by the Scottish author [[Jane Porter]]; it proved very popular, particularly in the United States, and went through over eighty editions in the 19th century.<ref name=ani>[[#Identity|National Identity In Thaddeus of Warsaw, essay]].</ref><ref name="Looser2010">[[#Looser|Looser, 2010]], p. 166.</ref> An [[opera]], ''Kościuszko nad Sekwaną'' (Kościuszko at the [[Seine]]), written in the early 1820s, featured music by [[Franciszek Salezy Dutkiewicz]] and [[libretto]] by [[Konstanty Majeranowski]]. Later works have included dramas by [[Apollo Korzeniowski]], [[Justyn Hoszowski]] and [[Władysław Ludwik Anczyc]]; three novels by [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]], one by [[Walery Przyborowski]], one by [[Władysław Reymont|Władysław Stanisław Reymont]]; and works by [[Maria Konopnicka]]. Kościuszko also appears in non-Polish literature, including a [[sonnet]] by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], another by [[Leigh Hunt|James Henry Leigh Hunt]], poems by [[John Keats]] and [[Walter Savage Landor]], and a work by [[Karl von Holtei|Karl Eduard von Holtei]].<ref name="Herbst, 1969 p. 439."/>

In 1933, the U.S. Post Office issued a [[commemorative stamp]] depicting an engraving of "[[Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Washington, D.C.)|Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko]]," a statue of Kościuszko that stands in [[Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square]], near the White House. The stamp was issued on the 150th anniversary of Kościuszko's naturalization as an American citizen. Poland has also issued several stamps in his honor.<ref>[[#Smithsonian|Smithsonian National Postal Museum]].</ref> In 2010, [[Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument (Warsaw)|a copy of the monument]] was unveiled in [[Warsaw]], Poland.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redakcja |date=16 November 2010 |title=Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki odsłonięty |url=https://warszawa.naszemiasto.pl/pomnik-tadeusza-kosciuszki-odsloniety/ar/c1-2974036 |access-date=18 January 2022 |website=Warszawa Nasze Miasto |language=pl-PL}}</ref>

There are statues of Kościuszko in Poland at Kraków (by [[Leonard Marconi]]), which was destroyed by German forces during the World War II occupation and was later replaced with a replica by Germany in 1960<ref name=bufmon/> and [[Łódź]] (by [[Mieczysław Lubelski]]);<ref name="Herbst438"/> in the United States at [[Boston]],<ref name=bufmon>[[#Gallery|Tadeusz Kościuszko Gallery (Buffalo.edu)]].</ref> [[West Point, New York|West Point]],<ref name=bufmon/> [[Philadelphia]] (by [[Marian Konieczny]]),<ref name=bufmon/> [[Detroit]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=General Kosciuszko Monument - Ethnic Layers of Detroit |url=http://www.clas.wayne.edu/ELD/General-Kosciuszko-Monument|access-date=20 July 2020 |publisher=College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University}}</ref> (a copy of Leonard Marconi's Kraków statue),<ref>[[#Statue|City of Detroit web site]].</ref> Washington, D.C.,<ref name="Herbst438"/> [[Chicago]],<ref name="Herbst438"/> [[Milwaukee]]<ref name="Herbst438"/> and [[Cleveland]];<ref name="Herbst438"/> and in Switzerland at Solothurn.<ref name="Herbst438"/> Kościuszko has been the subject of paintings by [[Richard Cosway]], [[Franciszek Smuglewicz]], [[Michał Stachowicz]], [[Juliusz Kossak]] and [[Jan Matejko]].  A monumental ''[[Racławice Panorama]]'' was painted by [[Jan Styka]] and [[Wojciech Kossak]] for the centenary of the 1794 Battle of Racławice.<ref name="Herbst438"/> A commemorative monument was built in [[Minsk|Minsk, Belarus]] in 2005.<ref>[[#Nash2012|Nash, Hodges, Russell, 2012]], p. 10.</ref>

In 2023, the monument at West Point was dismantled for refurbishment, and a sealed lead box of about {{convert|1|cuft|L}} was discovered in the base. The time capsule is believed to date either from 1828 when it was erected by the [[United States Military Academy|Corp of Cadets]], or 1913 when Polish clergy and laity of the United States donated a statue of Kosciuszko to sit atop the column. In June 2023, [[X-ray]]s revealed that there was a box within the lead case.<ref name="2023-08-27_AP-M">[https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/08/27/ten-hut-time-machine-west-point-open-time-capsule-possibly-left-cadets-1820s.html Ten-Hut Time Machine? West Point to Open Time Capsule Possibly Left by Cadets in the 1820s], Michael Hill, [[Associated Press]]/[[Military.com]], 2023-08-27</ref> The opening of the box that August revealed what only appeared to be dirt<ref name="2023-08-28_BBC">[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66641401 A Muddy Reveal for Mysterious West Point Time Capsule From 1820s], Holly Honderich, BBC News, 2023-08-28</ref> but was later found to contain a medal and several coins.<ref name="2023-8-31_BBC">[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66667189 Coins and Medal Found in Mysterious West Point Time Capsule from 1820s], Max Matza, BBC News, 2023-08-31</ref>

Geographic features that bear his name include [[Mount Kosciuszko]], [[Seven Summits|the highest mountain in the continent]] of [[Australia]]. It lies in an extensive [[New South Wales]] national park also named after him, [[Kosciuszko National Park]]. Other geographic entities named after Kościuszko include [[Kosciusko Island]] in [[Alaska]], [[Kosciusko County, Indiana|Kosciusko County]] in [[Indiana]], and numerous cities, towns, streets and parks, particularly in the United States.<ref name="Herbst438"/>

Kościuszko has been the subject of many written works.  The first biography of him was published in 1820 by [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]], who served beside Kościuszko as his aide-de-camp and was also imprisoned in Russia after the uprising.<ref>[[#Nowak|Martin S. Nowak, essay, 2007]].</ref> English-language biographies have included [[Monica Mary Gardner]]'s ''Kościuszko: A Biography'', which was first published in 1920, and a 2009 work by [[Alex Storozynski]] titled ''The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution''.<ref>[[#Storozynski2009|Storozynski, 2009]].</ref>

=== Kosciuszko Commemorative Plaques ===
The Tadeusz Kosciuszko Commemorative Plaques are seven cast bronze plaques commemorating Tadeusz Kosciuszko, on the [[Kosciuszko Bridge]] over [[Newtown Creek]] in [[New York City]]. The plaques are hung on the main pillar of the bridge in the westbound direction, along the pedestrian and bicycle path. Two of the plaques, “Battle of Saratoga” and “West Point Academy”, are dedicated to Kosciuszko's most important military achievements during the [[American Revolution]]. Kosciuszko devised the successful defensive strategy for the [[Battle of Saratoga]], which became the turning point of the American Revolution. Kosciuszko drafted plans to build West Point Fortress, suggesting to Thomas Jefferson that it be used as a West Point Military Academy. The main plaques contains the most important information about Tadeusz Kościuszko.

The creative concept for the plaques was initiated by Andrzej Cierkosz. Text for the plaques was written by Alex Storozynski. The design was created by Andrzej Cierkosz and Grzegorz Godawa and carried out by sculptor Grzegorz Godawa in Poland. They were cast in a Polish bronze foundry Brązart in Poland.
The project was sponsored by Dobra Polska Szkola Foundation from New York and the Będziem Polakami Foundation from Poland. It received financial support from Andrzej Cierkosz, New York Governor [[Kathy Hochul]] and received significant financial support from the office of Polish Prime Minister [[Mateusz Morawiecki]]. The plaques were unveiled at a ceremony on 15 October 2022, the 205th anniversary of Kosciuszko’s death.

[[File:Ancienne chapelle de Kosciusko.jpg|thumb|Kościuszko monument, [[Montigny-sur-Loing]], France.]]

==See also==
* [[Casimir Pulaski]], similarly honored Polish commander in the American Revolutionary War
* [[Michael Kovats de Fabriczy]], Hungarian commander in the American Revolutionary War, known as "the father of the American cavalry"
* [[Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Washington, D.C.)]] – a monument in [[Washington, D.C.]]
* [[Camp Kosciuszko]]

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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Honeyman |first=A. Van Doren  |ref=Homeyman |title=Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 7  |location=Somerset, New Jersey |publisher=Somerset County Historical Society, 334 pages |year=1918  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPI5AQAAMAAJ}}
* {{cite book|last=Niestsiarchuk |first=Leanid |ref=Niestsiarchuk |title=Андрэй Тадэвуш Банавентура Касцюшка: Вяртаннегероя нарадзіму (Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko: Return of the Hero to his Motherland)  |year=2006 |publisher=ААТ "Брэсцкая друкарня" |location=Brest, Belarus |language=be |isbn=985-6665-93-0 }}
* {{cite book |last=Niemcewicz |first=Julian Ursyn |author-link=Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz |title=Under Your Vine and Fig Tree |year=1965 |editor-first=Mechie J. |editor-last=Budka |publisher=Grassmann Pub. Co., 398 pages |isbn=9780686818083 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IZAAAAAIAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Niemcewicz |first=Julian Ursyn |ref=Niemcewicz |title=Notes of My Captivity in Russia: In the Years 1794, 1795, and 1796  |publisher=William Tait, 251 pages |year=1844 |url=https://archive.org/details/notesmycaptivit00niemgoog}}
* {{cite book|last=Pula|first=James S.|title=Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty|year=1998|publisher=Hippocrene Books|location=New York|isbn=0-7818-0576-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thaddeuskosciusz00pula}}
* {{cite book |last=White |first=Anthony Walton  |ref=White |title=Memoir of Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Poland's hero and patriot, an officer in the American army of the revolution, and member of the Society of the Cincinnati |publisher=G. A. Thitchener |year=1883 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cQEAAAAYAAJ}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nps.gov/thko/ U.S. Kosciuszko National Monument web site.]
* [http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/albemarle/wills/k220t1wl.txt Will of Thaddeus Kosciuszko.]
* [http://kosciusko.ms Kosciusko Mississippi.]
* [http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/famous-belarusians/tadeusz-kosciuszko Famous Belarusians/Tadeusz Kościuszko]
* {{OL author|2253150A}}
* [http://kosciuszko.info Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Life like a movie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614085229/http://kosciuszko.info/ |date=14 June 2021 }}
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