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Kosciusko

noun
1.
Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817).  Synonyms: Kosciuszko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Kosciusko.





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"Kosciusko" Quotes from Famous Books



... co-operate with her despoilers in adopting under their direction a constitution suited to its new humiliation. Her King was making her the laughing-stock of Europe—but before long the name Poland was to become another name for tragedy. Kosciusko had fought in the War of the American Revolution. When he returned, with the badge of the Order of the Cincinnati upon his breast and filled with dreams of the regeneration of his own land by the magic ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele
... not generally known that the brave Kosciusko left a fund for the establishment of a negro college in the United States. Little did he think he had been fighting for a people, who would not grant one rood of their vast territory for ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child


Words linked to "Kosciusko" :   soldier, nationalist, patriot


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