The Peasant Prince
Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
New York : Thomas Dunn Books : St. Martin's, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Description: xiv, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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 before returning to Poland to eventually become commander in chief of the Polish army.
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.
Subjects:
Kociuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
Kociuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Generals -- Poland -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Poland -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
Poland -- History -- Partition period, 1763-1796.
Poland -- History -- 1795-1815.
Kociuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
Kociuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Generals -- Poland -- Biography.
Statesmen -- Poland -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
Poland -- History -- Partition period, 1763-1796.
Poland -- History -- 1795-1815.
ISBN:
9780312625948
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Kosciuszko, Tadeusz | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-359) and index.
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, 2010.
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, 2010.