Chapter 93 Watching the Show
Facing the attack of the three-nation coalition, the choice of the Poles is very interesting.
The nobles in the country have long been dissatisfied with the reforms of King Stanislaw II, and they are looking forward to Catherine II to do them justice.
Duke Błaszczaski: He is a Polish politician and diplomat who opposes Poniatowski's reforms and advocates retaining feudal privileges.
Bishop Tomowski: He is an important figure in the Polish Catholic Church. He firmly opposes Poniatowski's reforms and forms a political opposition with him.
And the king's uncle.
Although the Targowica Confederation had not been established during this period because of Selim. (A league established by Poland in 1792 to oppose reforms.)
But under the leadership of Stanislaw II's uncle, this group of people wrote a letter to Catherine II.
"Great ally of the Republic (Federation), Her Majesty the Russian Empress (Catherine the Great), we know that your wish is only to use your army to give the Republic and the Poles a piece of freedom, especially the safety and happiness of all citizens."
Not only that, Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki also preached: "Every real Pole should not be blinded by the Prussians and those royalist gangs. It is certain that only Russia can save our motherland, otherwise our country will be enslaved.
In this case, before the Triple Alliance arrived, Poland had already started a civil war.
According to the news Selim received, the opposition army took the lead in launching an attack outside Warsaw, and the king's army in Warsaw rose up to resist. They were waiting for reinforcements. Army.
It turns out that even Poland, a country that is rotten to the core, or any country that is about to perish, will always have heroes at the critical moment.
And Tadeusz Kościuszko is this hero.
Kościuszko was born in the village of Merechowszczyzna near the town of Kosawa.
This place is located in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is the son of Polish nobles Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko and Tekla ni Ratomska.
His family can be traced back to the noble families of Lithuania and Ruthenia, and Constanti Fyodorovich Kościuszko, a courtier of King Sigismund I in the 15th and 16th centuries.
At the age of 19, he caught up with the reforms of the Polish king and successfully entered the Warsaw Knights School. After graduation, he stayed at the school as a Captain instructor.
Due to their excellent grades, Kościuszko and his colleague Orłowski received royal scholarships.
On October 5, 1769, they immediately set off for Paris, which was also the reason why Kościuszko later supported the king's reforms.
Life in Paris was not easy for Kościuszko, because he was a foreigner and had no deep background, he could not apply to study at any French military academy.
But for more than five years in France, Kościuszko was educated as a day student. He often listened to lectures at the Paris Military Academy and visited the Military Academy Library.
There he came into contact with the Enlightenment and developed liberal ideas.
It was during this period. Prussian King Frederick the Great took advantage of Catherine II's expansionist mentality and joined forces with Austria for the first time in 1772. Partitioned Poland.
After hearing about this, Kościuszko returned to Poland in 1774, but the Polish army at that time was supervised by Russia and Prussia and could only maintain a size of 10,000 people, and Kościuszko lost the opportunity to join the army.
During his stay in Poland, he worked as a tutor for the daughter of a governor. Due to Kościuszko's erudition, the two fell in love and tried to elope, but were stopped by the governor.
This was the most humiliating time for Kościuszko, which planted the seeds of hatred for the powerful in his heart, and the enlightenment ideas he came into contact with in France fertilized it.
Alone, Kościuszko decided to go to America. He initially served the Continental Army as a volunteer, but on October 18, 1776, the meeting awarded him the title of Colonel of Engineers of the Continental Army.
On the recommendation of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (a supporter of King Stanislaw II of Poland) and Charles Lee, Kościuszko was appointed Chief Engineer of the Continental Army.
He went to Pennsylvania to work with the local Continental Army. Soon after arriving, he read the American Declaration of Independence.
Kosciuszko was moved by the declaration because it contained what he dreamed of. The people of the colonies dared to resist the arrogant British, so why couldn't Poland, once the leading power in Europe, change its destiny?
With hope for Poland's future, Kosciuszko finally met with Thomas Jefferson as he wished after many requests.
This further inspired his fighting spirit to revive Poland, and he began to devote himself to the American War of Independence. He needed to hone himself.
Kosciuszko's first assignment in America was to fortify Philadelphia. The first building he built was Fort Billingsport. On September 24, 1776, Kosciuszko was assigned to build fortifications along the banks of the Delaware River to defend against a possible British attack. In the spring of 1777, he was transferred to the Union Army under Horatio Gates. As the army's chief engineer, he directed the construction of several forts and fortified military camps along the colonial border with Canada. His fortifications enabled the Continental Army to successfully retreat from Ticonderoga and win the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
After the war, Kosciuszko was considered one of the best military men to have served in the United States, and George Washington gave him command of the military engineering at Fort West Point. He was then transferred to the Confederate Army, where he also built strong fortifications that led to American victories.
After seven years of service, on October 13, 1783, Kosciuszko was promoted to brigadier general by the United States Congress.
When he left the United States, he made his last will and appointed Thomas Jefferson as the executor.
After returning to Poland, King Stanislaw II of Poland, who was worried about no one to use, nominated him as a major general in 1789. The last hero of Poland finally had a stage to show his talents.
Therefore, when the opposition attacked Warsaw, he led the army loyal to the king and rushed to it, and defeated the rebels in one fell swoop.
Seeing the heavenly soldiers coming down to earth, the Polish king was not vague at this time, and directly appointed Kościuszko as the commander-in-chief of the Polish army and ordered him to resist the three-nation coalition.
Looking at the pocket army with only tens of thousands of people on hand and fighting a civil war, Kościuszko fell into deep thought, and he had to think of a way.
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