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Tadeusz Kościuszko

1746 - 1817

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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the U.S. side in the American Revolutionary War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tadeusz Kościuszko has received more than 2,177,578 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Tadeusz Kościuszko is the 76th most popular military personnel (up from 88th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Belarus and the most popular Belarusian Military Personnel.

Tadeusz Kościuszko is most famous for his role in the American Revolution, where he served as a general in the Continental Army. He is also known for his work as a military engineer and for designing the fortifications at West Point.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 76 out of 2,058. Before him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Walter Model, Erich Raeder, Ahmad Sanjar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, and Alexander Suvorov. After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Edward Smith, Günther von Kluge, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and Abu Muslim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 4. Before him are Francisco Goya, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Carlo Buonaparte. After him are Gaspard Monge, Gustav III of Sweden, Giuseppe Piazzi, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. Among people deceased in 1817, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 2. Before him is Jane Austen. After him are Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Fyodor Ushakov.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 7 out of 368. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Marc Chagall (1887), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), and Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877). After him are Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), and Meyer Lansky (1902).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belarus

Among military personnels born in Belarus, Tadeusz Kościuszko ranks 1. After him are Bronislav Kaminski (1899), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Juliusz Rómmel (1881), Mikhail Yegorov (1923), and Sergey Gritsevets (1909).

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