| Author |
Storozynski, Alex.
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| Title |
The peasant prince : Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the age of revolution / Alex Storozynski. |
| OCLC |
259266769 |
| ISBN |
9780312388027 (alk. paper) |
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0312388020 (alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, [2009] |
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©2009 |
| Description |
xiv, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Kociuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
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United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
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Generals -- Poland -- Biography.
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Statesmen -- Poland -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
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Poland -- History -- Partition period, 1763-1796.
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Poland -- History -- 1795-1815.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-359), endnotes (pages [285]-335), and index. |
| Contents |
Broken hearts and Greek role models -- A rebel joins the cause -- Turning back the British tide : the Battle of Saratoga -- French egos and colonial conspirators -- Washington's West Point architect -- A rock, an African prince, and America's traitor -- A Polish Yankee goes south -- Love and rockets -- Fiddling lords and enslaved hordes -- Europe's first constitution and the Polish revolution -- The "noble" traitors -- Kosciuszko's rebels : peasant scythemen, a burgher militia, and a Jewish cavalry -- Poland Is wiped off the map -- Kosciuszko tries to free Jefferson's slaves -- Napoleon comes up short -- A peasant without a country. |
| Summary |
Follows the life of the Polish aristocrat who believed in freedom, fought in the American Revolution, and was appointed chief of the Engineering Corps of the Northern army. |
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