Two posts ago I featured the memorial to Thaddeus Kosciuszko in Warsaw, Poland, and last post I featured his role as engineer. I had occasion to be in Washington, DC this weekend and photographed the Kosciuszko Memorial in Lafayette Park in Washington.
This statue was sculpted by Polish sculptor Antoni Popiel and dedicated on May 11, 1910. IN his right hand is a map of the Saratoga fortifications, and is the original. The one in Warsaw is a replica of the Washington, DC one and was installed in 2010. The American one was purchased with funds raised by the Polish National Alliance, which Congress agreed to accept in 1904. Although President Taft dedicated the statue in 1910, he declined to attend a banquet held by the PNA as it met for four days afterward to discuss the status of Poland.
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