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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kociuszko (" Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kociuszko "; February 4 or 12 , 1746  October 15 , 1817 ) was a Polish  Lithuanian military engineer and a military leader who became a national hero in ___MASK64___ , ___MASK72___ , Belarus , and the United States . He fought in the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth ' s struggles against Russia and Prussia , and on the American side in the American Revolutionary War . As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces , he led the 1794 Kociuszko Uprising . ___MASK72___ ( UK and US : ), officially the Republic of ___MASK72___ , is a country in Northern Europe . One of the three Baltic states , it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea , to the east of Sweden and Denmark . It is bordered by Latvia to the north , Belarus to the east and south , Poland to the south , and Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) to the southwest . ___MASK72___ has an estimated population of 2 . 9 million people , and its capital and largest city is Vilnius . Lithuanians are a Baltic people . The official language , Lithuanian , along with Latvian , is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo - European language family . ___MASK64___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK64___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the ___MASK84___ and ___MASK5___ to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK64___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK64___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK64___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . ___MASK32___ was a historic state originating out of the Duchy of ___MASK32___ and the Margraviate of Brandenburg , and centred on the region of ___MASK32___ . For centuries , the House of ruled ___MASK32___ , successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well - organised and effective army . ___MASK32___ , with its capital in and from 1701 in Berlin , shaped the history of Germany . In 1871 , German states united to create the ___MASK34___ under Prussian leadership . In November 1918 , the monarchies were abolished and the nobility lost its political power during the German Revolution of 1918  19 . The Kingdom of ___MASK32___ was thus abolished in favour of a republic  the Free State of ___MASK32___ , a state of Germany from 1918 until 1933 . From 1933 , ___MASK32___ lost its independence as a result of the Prussian coup , when the Nazi regime was successfully establishing its ' laws in pursuit of a unitary state . With the end of the Nazi regime , the division of Germany into allied - occupation zones and the separation of its territories east of the line , which were incorporated into Poland and the Soviet Union , the State of ___MASK32___ ceased to exist de facto in 1945 . ___MASK32___ existed "" until its formal liquidation by the Allied Control Council Enactment No . 46 of 25 February 1947 . The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean , enclosed by Scandinavia , ___MASK23___ , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of ___MASK23___ , the Gulf of Riga , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . ___MASK40___ ( lat . ',      ), officially the Republic of ___MASK40___ , formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia ( though this name is no longer used in ___MASK40___ itself , even in Russian language ), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast , ___MASK100___ to the south , ___MASK64___ to the west , and ___MASK72___ and Latvia to the northwest . Its capital and most populous city is Minsk . Over 40 % of its is forested . Its strongest economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing . Until the 20th century , different states at various times controlled the lands of modern - day ___MASK40___ , including the Principality of Polotsk ( 11th to 14th centuries ), the ___MASK39___ , the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Russian Empire . The Kociuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial ___MASK76___ and the Kingdom of ___MASK32___ led by Tadeusz Kociuszko in the Commonwealth of ___MASK64___ and the Prussian partition in 1794 . It was a failed attempt to liberate the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian influence after the Second Partition of ___MASK64___ ( 1793 ) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation . Warsaw (; see also other names ) is the capital and largest city of ___MASK64___ . It stands on the Vistula River in east - central ___MASK64___ , roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains . Its population is estimated at 1 . 750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3 . 105 million residents , which makes Warsaw the 9th most - populous capital city in the European Union . The city limits cover , while the metropolitan area covers . The ___MASK49___ Revolutionary War ( 17751783 ), also referred to as the ___MASK49___ War of Independence and the Revolutionary War in the United States , was an armed conflict between ___MASK86___ and thirteen of its North ___MASK49___ colonies that after onset of the war declared independence as the United States of America . Tomasz Wawrzecki ( 1753 -- 1816 ) was a distinguished Polish politician and military commander , a general of the Polish Army . During Kociuszko ' s Uprising in Warsaw he succeeded Tadeusz Kociuszko as the commander of the Polish forces . His surrender to Russian troops on 16 November 1794 marked the end of the uprising . Tomasz Wawrzecki was born on 7 March 1753 in his family manor in a small village of Widze ( modern Vidzy , Vitsebsk Voblast , ___MASK40___ ) . Little is known of his early life . He was nominated by King Stanisaw August of ___MASK64___ to the rank of Grand Standard - bearer of ___MASK72___ . A strong supporter of reforms of the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth and then the Kingdom of ___MASK64___ , he was a member of the Four - Year Sejm and a partisan of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution . He took part in the Russo - Polish War of 1792 . After the outbreak of Kociuszko ' s Uprising of 1794 , Wawrzecki founded and financed a number of military units to fight in the regions of Samogitia and Courland . At the same time he was also a plenipotentiary of the Supreme National Council , the de facto government of ___MASK64___ . On 16 October 1794 , he was promoted by Kociuszko to the rank of Lieutenant General . Following Kociuszko ' s defeat in the battle of Maciejowice , the Council ( on insistence of Hugo Kotaj ) nominated Wawrzecki as Kociuszko ' s successor as the commander in chief of the uprising . After the Battle of Praga he withdrew with the remnants of his forces to Radoszyce , where he disbanded his troops and surrendered himself to the Russians . Kept prisoner until 1796 , he was set free by Paul I of Russia and returned to ___MASK72___ . During the existence of the Duchy of Warsaw he collaborated with the Russians . Afterwards Alexander I of Russia made him the minister of justice of the Kingdom of ___MASK64___ . He died on 5 August 1816 in Widze , where he was buried . The Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , formally the Kingdom of ___MASK64___ and the ___MASK39___ , after 1791 the Commonwealth of ___MASK64___ , was a dualistic state , a bi - confederation , of ___MASK64___ and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch , who was both the King of ___MASK64___ and the Grand Duke of Lithuania . It was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th - and 17th - century Europe . At its peak in the early 17th century , the Commonwealth spanned some and sustained a multi - ethnic population of 11 million . The union was formalized by the Union of Lublin in July 1569 , but the Crown of the Kingdom of ___MASK64___ and the ___MASK39___ were in a de - facto personal union since 1386 with the marriage of the Polish queen Hedwig and Lithuania ' s Grand Duke Jogaila , who was crowned King " jure uxoris " Wadysaw II Jagieo of ___MASK64___ . The First Partition of ___MASK64___ in 1772 and the Second Partition of ___MASK64___ in 1793 greatly reduced the nation ' s size and the Commonwealth disappeared as an independent state following the Third Partition of ___MASK64___ in 1795 .