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Commemoration Of Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko is one of the most honored persons in Polish history, in terms of places and events named in his honor. As a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States, Kościuszko has given his name to many places and monuments around the world. Commemorations by place Poland In Poland, nearly every major town has a street or square named for Kościuszko. Between 1820 and 1823, the people of Kraków erected the Kościuszko Mound to commemorate the Polish leader. A similar mound was erected in 1861 at Olkusz. He is the patron of Cracow University of Technology, Kraków University of Technology, Tadeusz Kościuszko Land Forces Military Academy, Wrocław Military University, and countless other schools and ''gymnasium (school), gymnasia'' (secondary schools) throughout Poland. He was the patron of the 1st Regiment of the Polish 5th Rifle Division, and of the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division, 1st Division of the First Polish Army (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko ( be, Andréj Tadévuš Banavientúra Kasciúška, en, Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Belarus, France, Lithuania, Poland and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russian Empire, Russia and Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia, and on the US 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 Mieračoŭščyna, Mereczowszczyzna estate in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, then Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Ivatsevichy District of Belarus). At age 20, he graduated from the Corps of Cadets (Warsaw), Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, Poland. After the start of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORP Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko
ORP ''Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko'', formerly USS ''Wadsworth'' (FFG-9), is one of two guided-missile frigates in the Polish Navy. She is the 2nd "short-hull" ship to be built and 3rd overall. She is named after Tadeusz Kościuszko, an American Revolutionary War hero as well as a hero of Poland's struggle for independence; in United States Navy, US Navy service she was named after Commodore Alexander S. Wadsworth''.'' Originally commissioned in 1980, she served in the US Navy until 2002, when she was decommissioned and immediately turned over to the Polish Navy. ''Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko'' has participated in numerous North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea. History Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, Los Angeles, San Pedro, California on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY75 program, ''Wadsworth'', originally classified PF-111, was laid down on 13 July 1977, launched on 29 July 1978, and commissioned on 28 Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
