KOSCIUSCO

(36° 22’ 8.; 148° 20’ B.), mountain peak, Australia, c, 7,325 ft. Polish statesman and general; 6b at Mercezewszcyzna, Lithuania; served in Amer. army, 1776-86, becoming adjutant to Washington, in 1777; returning to Poland, he became a leader in the reform of 1790, and served with distinction against Ru ia, in 1792. He afterwards withdrew to Leipzig, whence he returned in 1794, to take command in the Polish rising of that year; gained some slight sue ce es at first, and defeated Ru ians at Raclawice; but he was subsequently routed at Rawka, and after other reverses was finally defeated and captured at Maciejowice, Oct. 4, 1794. He was released from prison py Paul I., in 1796, and after 21 years spent in America, France, and “Switzerland, he died at Salothurn, 1817.