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Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Kosciuszko at West Point  1947, oil on canvas, 72x60 inches by Boleslaw J. Czedekowski. In the collection of Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City.

Kosciuszko is depicted in the uniform of a brigadier-general of the American Continental army of the revolution. He wears the order of the Society of the Cincinnati of which he was a charter member. In the background is Fort Clinton, on the Hudson River.





 

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