Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-359), endnotes (p. [285]-335), and index.
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.
Summary:
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.
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