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COUNT CASIMIR PULASKI (1748-1779)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT CASIMIR PULASKI (1748-1779)  ,
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Polish soldier, was born in
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Podolia in 1748, and took a prominent share, under his
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father Count Joseph Pulaski, in the formation of the
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con-federation of Bar and in the military operations which followed, becoming ultimately
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commander-in-chief of the Polish patriot forces . Driven into exile about 1772, Pulaski went to
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America and joined the army of Washington in 1777 . He distinguished himself at once in the
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battle of
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Brandywine, was made a brigadier-general and chief of cavalry by Congress, and fought at
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Germantown, and in the battles of the winter 1777-78, after which he raised a mixed corps called the Pulaski legion . At the head of this force he won further distinction in the
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southern theatre of war, and successfully defended
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Charleston in May 1779 . He was mortally wounded soon afterwards at the unsuccessful attack on
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Savannah (Oct . 9) and died two days later on board
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ship . Congress voted a monument to his memory; and though this
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vote has never been carried into execution,
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Lafayette laid the corner-stone of a monument in Savannah in 1824, and this was completed in 1855 .

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