What is Tadeusz Kościuszko?
{{no sources|date=March 2025}} [[Image:Kosciuszko (5871133) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|175px|Tadeusz Kościuszko.]] '''Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko''' ({{IPAudio|Pl-Tadeusz_Kościuszko.ogg|[ta'deuʃ koɕ'ʨuʃko]}}; 4 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a [[Poland|Polish]] national hero, [[General officer|general]] and a leader of the [[Kościuszko Uprising]] (which bears his name) against the [[Imperial Russia|Russian Empire]]. Tadeusz was born in February 1746 in [[Mereczowszczyzna]], Polesie. (now in [[Belarus]]) He fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]] as a colonel in the [[Continental Army]] on the side of [[George Washington|Washington]]. Because of his service he was promoted to the rank of [[Military rank|Brigadier General]] in [[1783]], and became a [[citizen]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] that same year. He died in [[Solothurn (city)|Solothurn]], Switzerland on October 15, 1817 due to a stroke. His body was later moved to a graveyard in Poland. The services he did towards the Colonies was stuff such as, He built walls for defense during the Battle of Saratoga, and he helped design the plans for a fort at West Point, New York. Without Kosciuszko's help, the army's defenses would have been much weaker. {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kosciuszko, Tadeusz}} [[Category:1746 births]] [[Category:1817 deaths]] [[Category:American generals]] [[Category:American revolutionaries]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Polish generals]]