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Died. Mikhail Petrovich Artsibashev, 48, famed Russian author, great-grandson of 'Tadeusz Kosciuszko (temperamental Pole who fought for the American colonists in 1777); in Warsaw. Tales of the Revolution, (1917) gives intimate pictures of Russia's debacle...
From Warsaw, without announcing what college he would attend, came one John Tichy, brought over by a foundation in memory of Brigadier-General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko,* able Polish ally of the revolutionary U. S. colonists, George Washington's adjutant...
...Vigorous and promising as a cadet at Warsaw, Kosciuszko was sent to Germany at Poland's expense to complete his military education. At 30, while tutoring some aristocratic young ladies, he fell in love with one of them and made to elope with her. Family retainers fell upon him, pinking him often and severely before they could eject him. He promptly came to the New World to heal his wounds of heart and body and to win his spurs in real action. With Washington and his colleagues he was at once popular and prominent. In 1783 Congress bestowed citizenship...
Harley Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's legal horses and men balked valiantly and the episode ended happily for nearly every...
Lieut. Edmund Pike graves '13, Kosciuszko Aerial Squadron...