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This bronze bottle opener from Poland features a relief image of the Polish American hero, General Thaddeus (Tadeusz) Kościuszko on one side and the Polish White Eagle on the other side.

Measures 2.0" Wide x 3.5" Tall

Born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of his time, Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish, Lithuanian, American, and Belarusian national hero and military general. Kościuszko fought as a Colonel in the American Revolutionary War, Lieutenant General in the Polish-Russian War of 1792, and Commander-in-Chief of the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. As one of Poland's most brilliant military commanders of the time, Kościuszko receive the Virtuti Militari Medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today, for his leadership in the War of 1792. He aided many U.S. slaves to obtain their freedom and completely freed all his own serfs. Mikael Dziewanowski identified him as a "pioneer of emancipation and a spokesman for racial democracy and justice in eighteenth-century America" and Thomas Jefferson regarded him "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known." All around the world many places now bear his name in commemoration.