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Casimir Pulaski

We are to die so that the motherland may live; for while we live the motherland is dying.

The Poles were fighting the Russians. Pulaski was a Field Marshall. This was before he had come to America and fought in the American Revolution.

Casimir Pulaski

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

He did, in 1779 at Savannah.

Casimir Pulaski

Know that as I could not submit to stoop before the sovereigns of Europe, so I came to hazard all the freedom of America, and desirous of passing the rest of my life in a country free and before settling as a citizen, to fight for liberty.

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Casimir Pulaski

Born: March 4, 1745
Died: October 11, 1779
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Biography

Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski of Ślepowron was a Polish nobleman, soldier and military commander who has been called, together with his counterpart Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, "the father of the American cavalry."

CASIMIR PULASKI

(Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski)