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PULASKI, Brigadier General Count Casimir: Memorial at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
by Kazimierz Chodzinski
Bronze by Kazimierz Chodzinski
Address: Pennsylvania Ave & 13th St NW Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number DC000039 (dcMem ID #635)
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BRIGADIER GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI
1748 - 1779
THE BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF BRIGADIER GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI, PORTRAYS THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO IN THE UNIFORM OF A POLISH CAVALARY COMMANDER. BORN IN WINIARY POLAND ON MARCH 4, 1748 TO A NOBLE FAMILY, PULASKI GAINED PROMINENCE IN EUROPE FOR HIS ROLE IN DEFENDING LIBERTY IN POLAND. EXCITED BY THE STRUGGLE OF THE EMERGING AMERICAN REPUBLIC, PULASKI JOINED IN ITS FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE, ARRIVING IN BOSTON IN JULY, 1777. PULASKI WAS GIVEN A COMMISSION AS BRIGADIER GENERAL AND CHIEF CAVALRY IN COMMAND OF ALL CAVALRY OF THE AMERICAN FORCES. HE WAS PRESENT AT GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA AND LED HIS LEGION AT HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, EGG HARBOR, NEW JERSEY; CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA; AND SAVANNAH GEORGIA. AT SAVANNAH, PULASKI WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AND WAS TAKEN ABOARD THE AMERICAN BRIG, WASP, WHERE HE DIED AND WAS BURIED AT SEA ON OCTOBER 11, 1778. HE WAS 31 YEARS OLD. THE STATUE WAS DESIGNED BY THE SCULPTOR KAZIMIERZ CHODZINSKI AND ARCHITECT ALBERT R. ROSS. IT WAS ERECTED IN 1910.
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The Old Post Office (Pulaski on the left)
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Across Freedom Square -- Pulaski is in the trees toward the left.
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