The Peasant Prince Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-4299-6607-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press
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| Imprint: | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko arrived in the colonies with little other than an industrious spirit and a genius for engineering, but he soon he became indispensable to the American Revolution. He designed the fortifications at Philadelphia and West Point-it was his plans that Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British-contributed to the plans at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga, and led a ring of black spies in the South. After rising to the rank of brigadier general, Kosciuszko returned to his...
More DescriptionThaddeus Kosciuszko arrived in the colonies with little other than an industrious spirit and a genius for engineering, but he soon he became indispensable to the American Revolution. He designed the fortifications at Philadelphia and West Point-it was his plans that Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British-contributed to the plans at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga, and led a ring of black spies in the South. After rising to the rank of brigadier general, Kosciuszko returned to his native Poland, led an uprising against czarist Russia, and became an international celebrity. With an historical cast from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Catherine the Great and Napoleon, this wide-sweeping narrative shows the life and times of a long-overlooked leader.