Thaddeus Kosciuszko arrived in the colonies with little other than an industrious spirit and a genius for engineering. He soon became indispensable to the American Revolution, designed the fortifications at Philadelphia and West Point - it was his plans that Benedict Arnold tried to sell to the British - devised battle plans at Saratoga, and led a ring of Black spies in the South. Afterward, Kosciuszko returned to his native Poland, led an uprising against czarist Russia, and became an international celebrity. With an historical cast from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Catherine the Great and Napoleon, this wide-sweeping narrative reveals the life and times of a long overlooked Leader.
- ISBN10 0312388020
- ISBN13 9780312388027
- Publish Date 5 May 2009 (first published 28 April 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thomas Dunne Books
- Language English