D.C. Statuary

Tadeusz Kościuszko

38.900014, -77.035352 | Military

Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko is a bronze statue by Antoni Popiel. It was dedicated by William Howard Taft, on May 11, 1910 and is placed in the North East corner of Lafayette Park. A copy of the monument was unveiled in Warsaw, Poland in 2010

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian military engineer and a military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising.