I am so done for if I were a soldier stationed in Poland in my 20s and single.
Posted on 05/28/2018 9:44:42 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Two months after Ben Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence, a surprise visitor walked into his Philadelphia shop. The young man’s curly brown hair cascaded down toward his shoulders, and his English was so broken he switched to French. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a 30-year-old Pole just off the boat from Europe via the Caribbean, introduced himself and offered to enlist as an officer in the new American nation’s army.
Franklin, curious, quizzed Kosciuszko about his education: a military academy in Warsaw, studies in Paris in civil engineering, including fort building. Franklin asked him for letters of recommendation. Kosciuszko had none.
Instead, the petitioner asked to take a placement exam in engineering and military architecture. Franklin’s bemused answer revealed the inexperience of the Continental Army. “Who would proctor such an exam,” Franklin asked, “when there is no one here who is even familiar with those subjects?”
On August 30, 1776, armed with Franklin’s recommendation and high marks on a geometry exam, Kosciuszko walked into Independence Hall and introduced himself to the Continental Congress.
In his native Poland, Kosciuszko is known for leading the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794, a brave insurrection against foreign rule by Russia and Prussia. But that came before the liberty-loving Pole played a key but overlooked role in the American Revolution. Though not nearly as well known as the Marquis de Lafayette, America’s most celebrated foreign ally of the era, Kosciuszko was in many ways his equal. Both volunteered with an idealistic belief in democracy, both had a major impact on a climactic battle in the Revolution, both returned home to play prominent roles in their own country’s history, both enjoyed the friendship/high esteem of American Founding Fathers. Kosciuszko did something more: he held his American friends to the highest ideals of equality on the issue of slavery.
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Also see: Casimir Pulaski.
Buried in Savannah where he fell in battle leading his troops.
My how things interconnect.
And some of those connections are amazing as they happen. It appears to be coincidence to some, but others find it part of a pattern.
I’ve seen too much of that, it is a pattern for me.
Kosciusko, Mississippi - hometown of Oprah Winfrey. Population 7400.
On the other hand, Pulaski, Ga (not in Pulaski county) has a population of under 300. Pulaski county has about 12,000.
Even to this day there is a room in the Vatican museum devoted to their Warrior King Jan Sobieski, who charged with 3,000 of his Winged Hussars into a muslim camp that may have been as large as 300,000 muz-ka-bobs...
Polish sausage indeed.
The amazing part? The beautiful smiles.
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Ping to a wonderful article about Thaddeus Kosciuszko, lover of freedom.
In his native Poland, Kosciuszko is known for leading the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794, a brave insurrection against foreign rule by Russia and Prussia. But that came before the liberty-loving Pole played a key but overlooked role in the American Revolution.
The author has it backwards in the second sentence. The uprising was after the revolutionary war.
He has two bridges in New York named after him. One is well known to any tri state traffic report listener as it connects Brookyln and Queens. The other I was not aware of till I just looked up the first to confirm some details.
My wife from Russia said about Obama, “I didn’t leave Russia to come to Russia”. Trump makes her smile. She says he is, “real”
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The British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781.
Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783.
That said, they were conscripting American Citizens on the high seas into the British Navy long after that.
I think I’ve seen it. The title comes to mind, but I don’t remember when I saw it.
She is right about Obozo, he is far to the Left of Vlad.
He is in the Fidel catagory. But more like his cousin. Raila Odinga, in Kenya. And both of them lie every time their mouth moves. And are as treacherous as snakes.
About Hillary she said,”How could someone vote for someone like that?”
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