The peasant prince : Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the age of revolution / Alex Storozynski.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Storozynski, Alex
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, c2009.
Subjects:	Kościuszko, Tadeusz, > 1746-1817. United States. > Army > Officers > Biography. Generals > Poland > Biography. Statesmen > Poland > Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns. Poland > History > Partition period, 1763-1796. Poland > History > 1795-1815.

Table of 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.

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