Tadeusz Kosciuszko

He left Russia via Finland, Stockholm, and the United Kingdom for the United States.

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In the United States, he met with his friends from the American Revolution, including Thomas Jefferson, who helped him obtain a passport under a false name. In America, he was received as a Polish national hero and a great soldier fighting for freedom. Thomas Jefferson called Kosciuszko "as pure a son of liberty, as I have ever known, and of that liberty which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone."