Person

Tadeusz Kościuszko

1746–1817 · 18th century

Tadeusz Kościuszko was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and commander who also served in the American War of Independence. In 1794 he led a national insurrection against Russian and Prussian domination of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The uprising's defeat was followed by the Third Partition of 1795, which ended the Commonwealth's existence, and Kościuszko became an enduring symbol of Polish national resistance.

Tadeusz Kościuszko
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tadeusz Kościuszko. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tadeusz-kosciuszko
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