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Tadeusz Kościuszko

1746 - 1817

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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) 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 on the U.S. side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising. Kościuszko was born in February 1746, in a manor house on the Mereczowszczyzna estate in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, then Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now the Ivatsevichy District of Belarus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tadeusz Kościuszko is the 82nd most popular military personnel (down from 76th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Belarus and the most popular Belarusian Military Personnel.

Tadeusz Kościuszko is most famous for his role in the American Revolution, where he served as a general in the Continental Army. He is also known for his work as a military engineer and for designing the fortifications at West Point.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 82 out of 2,058. Before him are Ferdinand Foch, Michel Ney, Eli Cohen, Günther von Kluge, Albrecht von Wallenstein, and Nero Claudius Drusus. After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Klaus Barbie, Wild Bill Hickok, Vasily Arkhipov, Ivan Konev, and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 5. Before him are Francisco Goya, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gustav III of Sweden, and Carlo Buonaparte. After him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Gaspard Monge, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Robert R. Livingston, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1817, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 3. Before him are Jane Austen, and Princess Charlotte of Wales. After him are Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, and Duke Louis of Württemberg.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 7 out of 368. Before him are Marc Chagall (1887), Shimon Peres (1923), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Menachem Begin (1913), and Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877). After him are Chaim Weizmann (1874), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), and Meyer Lansky (1902).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belarus

Among military personnels born in Belarus, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 1. After him are Bronislav Kaminski (1899), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Juliusz Rómmel (1881), Mikhail Yegorov (1923), and Sergey Gritsevets (1909).

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