The Peasant Prince

The Peasant Prince
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781429966078
ISBN-13 : 1429966076
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Peasant Prince by : Alex Storozynski

Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, literally showing up on Benjamin Franklin's doorstep in Philadelphia with little more than a revolutionary spirit and a genius for engineering. Entering the fray as a volunteer in the war effort, he quickly proved his capabilities and became the most talented engineer of the Continental Army. Kosciuszko went on to construct the fortifications for Philadelphia, devise battle plans that were integral to the American victory at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga, and designed the plans for Fortress West Point—the same plans that were stolen by Benedict Arnold. Then, seeking new challenges, Kosciuszko asked for a transfer to the Southern Army, where he oversaw a ring of African-American spies. A lifelong champion of the common man and woman, he was ahead of his time in advocating tolerance and standing up for the rights of slaves, Native Americans, women, serfs, and Jews. Following the end of the war, Kosciuszko returned to Poland and was a leading figure in that nation's Constitutional movement. He became Commander in Chief of the Polish Army and valiantly led a defense against a Russian invasion, and in 1794 he led what was dubbed the Kosciuszko Uprising—a revolt of Polish-Lithuanian forces against the Russian occupiers. Captured during the revolt, he was ultimately pardoned by Russia's Paul I and lived the remainder of his life as an international celebrity and a vocal proponent for human rights. Thomas Jefferson, with whom Kosciuszko had an ongoing correspondence on the immorality of slaveholding, called him "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known." A lifelong bachelor with a knack for getting involved in doomed relationships, Kosciuszko navigated the tricky worlds of royal intrigue and romance while staying true to his ultimate passion—the pursuit of freedom for all. This definitive and exhaustively researched biography fills a long-standing gap in historical literature with its account of a dashing and inspiring revolutionary figure.

Thaddeus Kosciuszko

Thaddeus Kosciuszko
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89069263473
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Thaddeus Kosciuszko by : Francis C. Kajencki

Friends of Liberty

Friends of Liberty
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9780786746484
ISBN-13 : 0786746483
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Friends of Liberty by : Gary Nash

Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko's abhorrence of bondage shaped histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an intense friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human freedom. They sealed their bond with a blood compact whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves upon Kosciuszko's death. But Jefferson died without fulfilling the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling nation founded on the principle of liberty and justice for all.

George Washington's Secret Weapon

George Washington's Secret Weapon
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Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9798638541545
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis George Washington's Secret Weapon by : Yurii M Ustin

This is the amazing saga of a little-known, penniless Polish volunteer who was crucial to America's War for Independence. If someone had just imagined his life, no one would believe it. Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born in 1746 to an impoverished noble family in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He managed to get a good military education but was exiled from his country for trying to elope with the beautiful daughter of a powerful magnate. Except for his knowledge, character, and striking good looks, he had few advantages when he left Europe with many others to fight in General Washington's rag-tag volunteer army. After he arrived in Philadelphia in 1776, Benjamin Franklin interviewed him and recommended him as an engineer in the Continental Army. Over the next few years, he played central roles in the world-changing American victory at Saratoga, the construction of impregnable fortifications at West Point, and in Nathanial Greene's brilliant fight-and-run campaign through the Carolinas that led to a British surrender at Yorktown. He was the polar opposite of Benedict Arnold, the blood-and-glory hero of the Continental Army before he sold Kosciuszko's West Point plans to the British for a general's commission in their army. Arnold would also be unbelievable if someone had just made him up. So why did Arnold turn traitor? What made Kosciuszko the secret weapon of the Continental Army? How did Washington and his generals feel about this quiet Polish genius? How did he manage a close friendship with Thomas Jefferson while criticizing his slave-holding? How is Kosciuszko's name pronounced? How about his impossible birthplace of Mereczowszczyzna? Why do few Americans know of his successful role in securing their independence while Poles revere him despite his failure to free their country?

Winning Independence

Winning Independence
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 753
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ISBN-10 : 9781635572773
ISBN-13 : 1635572770
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Winning Independence by : John Ferling

Co-Winner of the 2022 Harry M. Ward Book Prize From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the U.S a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, presumed France's entrance into the war meant independence was just around the corner. Meanwhile, having lost an entire army at Saratoga, Great Britain pivoted to a “southern strategy.” The army would henceforth seek to regain its southern colonies, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, a highly profitable segment of its pre-war American empire. Deep into 1780 Britain's new approach seemed headed for success as the U.S. economy collapsed and morale on the home front waned. By early 1781, Washington, and others, feared that France would drop out of the war if the Allies failed to score a decisive victory that year. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of Britain's army, thought “the rebellion is near its end.” Washington, who had been so optimistic in 1778, despaired: “I have almost ceased to hope.” Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain-so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence.

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9783752412864
ISBN-13 : 3752412860
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Pan Tadeusz by : Adam Mickiewicz

Reproduction of the original: Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz

Thaddeus of Warsaw

Thaddeus of Warsaw
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Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002045218L
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Rating : 4/5 (8L Downloads)

Synopsis Thaddeus of Warsaw by : Jane Porter

Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781476793382
ISBN-13 : 1476793387
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Thaddeus Stevens by : Bruce Levine

A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian), “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.

Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home National Historic Site

Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home National Historic Site
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105045403693
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Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Thaddeus Kosciuszko Home National Historic Site by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 5

Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 5
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Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781975324452
ISBN-13 : 1975324455
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Dead Mount Death Play, Vol. 5 by : Ryohgo Narita

Polka’s “low profile”—such as it is—takes a hit when his explosive battle with Solitaire and Lemmings goes viral and attracts the attention of a young gossip reporter. The group is compromised further when two new arrivals, who have connections to—and beef with—Xiaoyu and Takumi, start stirring up trouble. The shadows of the past have converged in Shibuya, and the Corpse God is right at the center of it all!