Thaddäus Kosciusko – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Portrait by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart. Kościuszko is shown wearing the eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati, awarded to him by General Washington.Coat of arms:Roch III (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_G_Schweikart_-_Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko_(%C3%96aL).jpg

Basic data

Kościuszko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonaventura
February 4, 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna
†

October 15, 1817 in Solothurn
Feldherr

Iconography

Portrait by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart. Kościuszko is shown wearing the eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati, awarded to him by General Washington.Coat of arms:Roch III (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart. Kościuszko is shown wearing the eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati, awarded to him by General Washington.Coat of arms:Roch III (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko, aged 15, in 1761 (Source: Wikimedia)

Mereczowszczyzna manor (1848) (Source: Wikimedia)

Warsaw's Kazimierz Palace, where Kościuszko attended the Corps of Cadets (Source: Wikimedia)

Fort Clinton (West Point), fortified by Kościuszko, honored by a statue in background (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait by Kazimierz Wojniakowski (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait by Josef Grassi, 1792 (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko, by Juliusz Kossak (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko wearing the Virtuti Militari and, below it, the Eagle of the Cincinnati (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko and his peasant scythemen, from Matejko's Battle of Racławice (Source: Wikimedia)

House in Philadelphia where Kościuszko stayed in 1797 (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait by Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1817 (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko's last residence, in Solothurn, Switzerland, where he died (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko's heart, Royal Castle, Warsaw (Source: Wikimedia)

Kościuszko's sarcophagus at Wawel Cathedral (Source: Wikimedia)

Kosciuszko statue in Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. (Source: Wikimedia)

Monument of Kosciuszko in Mieračoŭščyna, Belarus (Source: Wikimedia)

(Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Kosciuszko, Delanaux - um 1793 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciuszko, Jean-Charles-François Leloy - 1828 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciusko, Johann Friedrich Schröter - 1785/1836 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciusko, Küfner, Abraham Wolfgang - 1775/1817 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciuszko, Daniel Berger - 1767/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciuszko, Hans Veit Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1794 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciuszko, Franz Xaver Stöckl - nach 1792 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Koscinzko, Johann Ferdinand Krethlow (zugeschrieben) - 1795/1842 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Franz Gabriel Fiessinger - 1795.11.12 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Kosciusko, Bojanow - nach 1794 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A003343 (Version 4.9.1 of February 5, 2024)
Last change of this document on December 31, 2019

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