Tadeusz Kościuszko: His Proclamations and Reports

What it is

This is a 1918 Polish edition titled Tadeusz Kościuszko: jego odezwy i raporta, gathering Kościuszko's own proclamations and reports from the 1794 uprising, with additional documents and an introduction by Ludwik Nabielak. The scanned book is preserved as a digitized text.

Why it matters

These are Kościuszko's own words as leader of the 1794 uprising against Russian and Prussian control of Poland. They let readers see directly how he communicated with soldiers and citizens during the fight for Polish independence, rather than relying only on later accounts.

Look closer

• Why would collecting a leader's actual proclamations be valuable to later historians?
• What might a proclamation written during an active uprising reveal that a later biography would not?
• Why was this collection published in 1918, over a century after the uprising?