The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko was one of the most remarkable and important figures of the modern world. Fleeing a death sentence in his homeland of Poland-Lithuania after daring to court a woman above his station, Kosciuszko arrived in Philadelphia just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence-showing up on Benjamin Franklin's doorstep with a revolutionary spirit and a genius for military engineering.
Volunteering for the Continental Army, Kosciuszko quickly became its most talented ...






















