Sculpture of Tadeusz Kościuszko, officer in the American Revolution by sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. It stands in the Boston Public Garden. This statue was unveiled in 1927, and was commissioned by Boston's Polish community to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Kosciuszko joining the Continental Army.

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (1746-1817) was Polish-Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States, and Belarus. He led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia as Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Force.

Before commanding the 1794 Uprising, he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1783, in recognition of his dedicated service, he was brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of brigadier general in a mass promotion given to all officers who had served during the war and became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The United States also gave him a land grant.

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Sculpture of Tadeusz KościuszkoPhoto 24b, July 2012

Sculpture of Tadeusz KościuszkoPhoto 25b, July 2012