Tadeusz Kościuszko

Tadeusz Kościuszko 1746-1817 Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish military strategist whose plan won the Battle of Saratoga the turning point of the American Revolution. He also built Fortress West Point, which Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British. Kosciuszko gave his salary as a general in the Continental Army to Thomas Jefferson and instructed him to use it buy African slaves and free them. Kosciuszko also fought for the rights of European serfs, Jews, Native-Americans and women. Jefferson called him, "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known, and of that liberty which is to go to all, and not to the few and rich alone."