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Like namesake, Dublin park rises to little fanfare [new Ohio RevWar Memorial]
AP via Columbus Dispatch ^ | May 21, 2012 | Lisa Cornwell

Posted on 05/21/2012 9:22:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy

Land awarded to a Polish freedom fighter more than 200 years ago by a grateful United States has been turned into a park bearing the name of the man who spent his life championing liberty and equality in America and Poland.

The 36-acre Thaddeus Kosciuszko Park in Dublin, which opened this month, was part of a grant of 500 acres awarded by Congress for Kosciuszko’s contributions as a military engineer and Continental Army colonel during the Revolutionary War.

Alex Storozynski, president and executive director of the Kosciuszko Foundation based in New York, said Kosciuszko was ahead of his time in standing up for the rights of the oppressed — including slaves, women, peasants and American Indians.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; kosciuszko; ohio; poland; revwar; thaddeuskosciuszko
Although I do not post news about reenactments or speeches by various historians or, DAR or SAR meetings, I thought that a new memorial was worth a ping to the list. And anyway, the Thad Kosciuszko story is such a great one.
1 posted on 05/21/2012 9:22:40 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; mainepatsfan; timpad; ...

Funny---I have a dear friend of 30 years whose parents were both born in Poland. She looks very much like a female version of Kosciuszko.

2 posted on 05/21/2012 9:28:17 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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Oops...forgot to add:

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

Freepmail me to get on or off this list.

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3 posted on 05/21/2012 9:32:48 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Pharmboy.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


4 posted on 05/21/2012 10:07:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pharmboy

He built the fortifications at West Point.


5 posted on 05/21/2012 10:09:00 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Due to conflicting Crown grants among the various colonies, disposition of lands beyond the Appalachians was a real mess. It was the reason Maryland did not join the Confederation until March 1781, just a few months before Yorktown.

Anyway, while the US government had no money, it ended up with lots of land with which to “pay the Debts,” including back pay to soldiers.


6 posted on 05/21/2012 10:14:59 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves)
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Indeed...while our Continental Army did not lack courage, fortitude and great leaders like Washington, Greene, Knox, Putnam, Mercer, Stirling, et. al., it DID lack military engineers. Kosciusko brought this...and more.


7 posted on 05/21/2012 10:16:31 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Jacquerie
Yes...the CT soldiers were often given land in western NY since CT was already taken. Ohio and Indiana were major places for RevWar land grants, as I understand it. I believe KY as well.

The Feds also eventually paid pensions to veterans, but they had to appear in court and provide proof that they fought.

8 posted on 05/21/2012 10:20:50 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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One of my ancestors was already on the Western Pennsylvania frontier at the time of the Revolution, volunteering for a militia outfit. After the war he pushed West into Ohio, where he volunteered again for the War of 1812. He sure didn’t have much use for the English. :-))


9 posted on 05/21/2012 11:03:48 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Great stuff...may I inquire if that ancestor was of German or Scottish (or other) background? I ask because many of the Western PA colonists were German, and many of them were pacifists; they recruited others to form militias out there, with Hugh Mercer one of the Scots who went there to fight.


10 posted on 05/21/2012 11:18:01 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy
Kosciuszko was a great democrat and Polish patriot. He was born in Poland-Lithuania, which disappeared during his life in the Partitions by Russia, Prussia and Austria. His armed resitence was brilliant, but could not prevail in the end.

He left his American estate for the manumission and education of slaves but Jefferson never executed the will. The Supreme Court and Chief Justice Taney, the infamous author of the Dred Scott decision, ruled the money belonged to his Polish heirs.

He would be very proud of the modern free, independent and democratic Poland, although his birthplace is now in Belarus.

11 posted on 05/21/2012 11:20:07 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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I haven't gotten that part of the family back to Europe. The name is not Highland Scots, but could be Lowland Scots, Scotch-Irish or even English. Definitely not German.

The guy must have liked a good fight, volunteering in two wars. That sounds Scotch-Irish, doesn't it? :-))

12 posted on 05/21/2012 3:30:01 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Yep...sounds like Scots-Irish to me, to be sure. Those boys seldom walked away from a fight. They played a big part during the RevWar...(as you undoubtedly know).


13 posted on 05/21/2012 5:19:44 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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