Karl Gottlieb Schweikart, portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, after 1802, oil on canvas, National Museum in Warsaw
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Karl Gottlieb Schweikart, portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, after 1802, oil on canvas, National Museum in Warsaw
License: public domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons, License terms and conditions

Tadeusz Kościuszko

First name:

Tadeusz

Last Name:

Kościuszko

Parents:

Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko i Tekla Kościuszko z domu Ratomska

Date of birth:

04-02-1746

Place of birth:

Mereczowszczyzna

Date of death:

15-10-1817

Place od death:

Solura

Age:

Profession:

engineer

Grade:

gen.

Honours and awards:

Order Cyncynata (1784), Złoty medal Virtuti Militari (1792)

Biography:

Tadeusz Kościuszko, actually Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (1746-1817), born in Mereczowszczyzna, son of Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko and Tekla Kościuszko, née Ratomska, military engineer, author of military fortifications of the Continental Army, Brigadier-General of the American Army (1783), Supreme Commander of the National Armed Forces during the Kościuszko Uprising, Lieutenant-General of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.