Kościuszko A Biography

The great and romantic chapter of Kosciuszko's history is now closed. Twenty more years of life remained to him. Those years were passed in exile. He never again saw his country.

A barn in the vicinity of the city has long been shown as the place where Kosciuszko slept the night before he entered Cracow. The Polish general, Madalinski, who by a ruse had...

We have reached the month of May, 1794. Kosciuszko and the Russian army under Denisov were now at close grips, Denisov repeatedly attacking, Kosciuszko beating him off. Communic...

When Kosciuszko returned to his native land, that great wave of a nation's magnificent effort to save herself by internal reform, which culminated in the Constitution of the 3rd...

In 1791, amidst an outburst of national rejoicing, was passed the Polish Constitution of the 3rd of May. Polish music and song have commemorated the day--to this hour the Polish...

In the early summer of 1776 Kosciuszko crossed the Atlantic on the journey to America that was then in the likeness of a pilgrimage to a wholly strange land. He found the countr...

Late in the afternoon of that ill-fated day a stretcher, roughly and hastily put together, was carried by Russian soldiers into the courtyard of the manor. The prisoners saw tha...

In Galicia, Kosciuszko was welcomed by a crowd of sympathizers. The Czartoryskis, then residing on their Galician estates, showed him such marked proofs of their admiration that...

The great national uprisings of history have for the most part gone down to time identified with the figure of a people's hero: with some personality which may be said in a cert...

sweetness which was native to him all his life, and which in later manhood drew men as by magic to his banners, even as in his school-days it won the respect and love of his you...