1746. Tadeusz Kostyushko was born
270 years ago, on February 4, 1746, Tadeusz Kostyushko, a Polish general, a participant in the US Independence War, the head of the Polish uprising of 1794, was born. Heavily wounded in the battle of the Maceyovitsy, he was captured by the tsarist troops, but until the death of Catherine the Second, he did not manage to pronounce the verdict, and Emperor Paul pardoned him.