Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)

Tadeusz Kościuszko

Polish military leader (1746–1817)

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and…