Definition of Kosciuszko

1. Noun. Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kosciuszko

Korotkoff's test
Korotkoff method
Korotkoff sounds
Korowai
Korsakoff's psychosis
Korsakoff's syndrome
Korsakov's psychosis
Korsakov's syndrome
Kory
Koryak
Korybant
Korybantes
Korzybski
Koschei
Kosciusko
Kosciuszko (current term)
Koshland-Nemethy-Filmer model
Kosovan
Kosovans
Kosovar
Kosovars
Kosovo
Kosovo and Metohia
Kossa stain
Kossack
Kossacks
Kostas
Kosteletzya
Kosteletzya virginica
Kostmann syndrome

Literary usage of Kosciuszko

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Not satisfied with report, Kosciuszko went to the frontier of Poland, ... The approach of such a man as Kosciuszko to the frontier could not be kept secret. ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Cracow was fixed on as the point of junction, and unanimous consent placed the noble Kosciuszko at the head of the confederacy. The patriots of Warsaw had ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"LEAR, Administrator, with the will annexed, of Kosciuszko. Will.—Probate. A testamentary paper, executed in a foreign country, even if executed so as to ..."

4. History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park by Doris Devine Fanelli (2001)
"Rys probably copied one of the many engraved images of Kosciuszko produced in ... These engravings were based on Josef Grassi's 1792 portrait of Kosciuszko. ..."

5. The Boys of '76: A History of the Battles of the Revolution by Charles Carleton Coffin (1899)
"It vill be easy for ze enemy to fire ze cannon-balls into ze camp from that hill," said the young Polander, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, pointing to a hill. ..."

6. Cracow by Andrew Beattie, Timothy Pepper (2002)
"The Kosciuszko Mound he Kosciuszko Mound (Kopiec T.Kosciuszki) is a ... Kosciuszko touted Republican and populist revolutionary ideas, influenced by the ..."

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