Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)
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The Warsaw Corps of Cadets was the first state school in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Corps of Cadets, Warsaw, by Zygmunt Vogel
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 18th-century commandant of the Corps of Cadets
18th-century uniform of a cadet
Tadeusz Kościuszko
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus. He fought in the
Corps of Cadets (Warsaw)
…Czartoryski. The school was closed in 1795 following the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising, which had been led by one of the Corps' first alumni, Tadeusz Kościuszko. In the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, several private corps of cadets were also established: by A. Tyzenhauz at Grodno, K. Radziwiłł at Nieśwież…
Karl G Schweikart Tadeusz Kościuszko
Mereczowszczyzna manor where Kościuszko was born in 1746
Kazimierz Palace, where Kościuszko attended the Corps of Cadets
Fort Clinton (West Point), fortified by Kościuszko, honored by a statue in background