He wasn’t the only Polish in the American Revolution, Tadeusz Kościuszko he was a colonel in the continental army and helped build West Point. He became a brigadier general and then returned to Poland in an attempt to liberate it.
There once was a very brave Pole, Who did it just right on the whole, Now dead in the ground, No trace to be found, We bless you, and God rest your soul.
No idea what so ever. Not this for sure en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hodów Nor that www.google.pl/search?q=winged+hussars+by+anatoly+telenik&client=safari&hl=pl-pl&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ4rKRtrPcAhUBXSwKHdO_D3oQ_AUIESgB&biw=320&bih=454
When country such big as PLC fights on all of its borders mobility of army is crucial. That and we have close relationship with Hungary, they was nomads first, so horses was part of their lives, we duplicated it.
Poor sod, he really got a raw deal at the end. "Oh! Your soldiers aren't content with not being paid enough!? Well maybe you should pay them some more idiot!" "B-but I have not enough of money when yuw don't pay me" "Shut up, you can't even speak proper American!"
Ray Z Lithuania wasn’t even a major part of the Lithuanian part of the commonwealth. It was like the 4th largest ethnic group, and Lithuanian wasn’t even an official language of the commonwealth. Lithuanian nobility were second to Polish, and much of them went through polanization, where they adopted Polish culture, language and customs so they would have better standing in the nation. Technically it was called Poland-Lithuania, but it was dominated by Poland.
A wild Filing cabinet Lithuanians were the 4th largest group yet they rulled belarussians and ukrainians at the time. Yes, most nobles spoke Polish, its just like the european union. Just because most politics speak english doesnt mean its english dominated. Without Grand duchy of Lithuania, the commonwealth would have never existed. Also lets not forget that at the time there was not national identity and neither polish nor lithuanian people really called them selfs that. There is a reason after all why there is both Vytis and the polish coat of arms on the flag.
Not an accident they were actively canceled in US memory, just like Polish Lithuanian (including jewish) and Italian migrants in early XX century were oppressed. Pulaski and especially Kosciuszko were memory holed, promotion of Polish jokes in the media, Italians portrayed in movies as criminals etc. And it’s not Americans who are behind it. It’s been always the same war as it was in the beginning.
I am in awe of how great these videos are. Lots of channels do history with their own spin, but you find the foot notes of history and turn them into a chuckle. I still request you do one on your namesake!
I never realized it but that first revolutionary war battle this video mentioned was the battle of Brandywine which happened not to far from where I lived. There was even a reenactment today. Pulaski Highway in Newark, Delaware is named after him.
American winged hussars, between that and our Roman inspired political philosophy and British naval tradition we've got to be the coolest empire in history.
It was a Pole and a Hungarian, Kovacs, who founded the American cavalry. Michael Kovats recommended Pulaski to Ben Franklin. Both of them died in America fighting the revolution.
Ah, von Stuben... that guy was something else. ;) A Prussian that became an American and gave the US a proper army. Sadly it wouldn't use things like the goose-step...
@@TheTrueAdept goose stepping is for Communists, Nazis, and other authoritarian oriented regime's. Besides learning how to march normally in formation was hard enough for me as an Airman lol
@@rc59191 ... the Goose step was _Prussia's thing_ not the Nazis or any authoritarian regime of the modern era. The sad thing is a lot of Prusian stuff was coopted by the Nazis. 😠 What von Stuben did was essentially taking all the flair out of it because the Americans wouldn't work with him otherwise.
US Army was trained by a Frenchman and a Prussian. US Cavalry was trained by a Pole. That's like the Exodia of all trainers. Oh, apparently US Navy was fathered by a Scotsman and an Irishman.
We have a Pulaski Highway here in Maryland. Pulaski's death was a plot point in one of the Outlander books. I was recently reading an article that said that they opened what was supposed to be Pulaski's grave in Georgia and the body had more of a female aspect to the hips. The DNA came back as related to Pulaski's family in Poland, so it is possible that he was intersex. If he presented as male on the outside and never tried to have children, he might have never known this.
Didn't he have something to do with a popular digging tool called the 'Pulaski"? If you need to break up dirt by hand to dig a trench, this tool works better than a pick axe. Great videos, thanks.
It's about time someone dispelled the lie that France is America's first ally. No, POLAND is America's first and greatest ally, now and forever. Next is Australia.
It was made a thing by the magnates, also called little kings, nobles who had enough power and money to create armies as large as small kingdoms in Europe; some of them even funded entire armies/wars against the Russians, Swedes, or Ottomans. The Liberum Veto was put in place by them so no one could try to take away their power and essentially turned the Commonwealth from a constitutional monarchy with true power being held in the Sejm (Polish Parliament) into an oligarchy.
"...helped the British get the jump on him while they were sleeping..." South Jersey sends its regards. His first mistake was coming to New Jersey. His second was going anywhere south of Trenton.
@Jack Rackam Hey Jack awesome to get a reply from you, yup he is referenced along with some other notable names actually, it’s in the third Volume of the Book called “Marius” but I cannot remember exactly which chapter. I am pretty sure it is him, because he i looked him up and the name seems very familiar, and also information about where he is born now in modern day Belarus, which would have been part of Russian Empire and Commonwealth I believe.
@Jack Rackam Just to let you know I have made a mistake it was actually Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, and he is from what is now Mieračoûščyna, Belarus, but still very interesting that he is mentioned alongside Washington even in Les Mes. Casimir Pułaski was from Warsaw but both men fought in the American Revolution and were from same Commonwealth. The polish name of the city that Kościuszko was called oh boy here it is: Mereczowszczyzna. Yeah Polish seems somewhat difficult but still and interesting language!
As a Wisconsin man, I don't know anything about this supposed holiday; secondly, if Wisconsin has a sizable polish population, why in the hell does no one here celebrate it
very few. until recently Connections between USA and Royal Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania were a taboo subject. Even better example: Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who with Pulaski were heros of both nations. I, as a Polish, am shocked how little information is available on them in english, especially on Kosciuszko. It’s like someone was trying to cancel them. Thank God for the last decade improved relations between the two countries started to reverse that.
He was a total badass. Franklin and Lafayette recruiting Pulaski for the revolution was like Obi Wan Kanobi and Luke Skywalker recruiting Han Solo in the Cantina scene. The actual story behind it is crazy. The Americans needed a king killer and Pulaski had just gotten out of prison on charges of regicide. One of those perfect moments in history. Till, you know....
We have a pretty good idea of where he is buried, considering it had a monument over it and the bones were verified by mitochondrial dna. Also....the bones indicate that casimir may have been intersexed.
@@paulobentoftw1162 Yes. Thats a medical statement, not a personal or political one. It is a recent discovery when they examined his bones. He was raised a boy and he and his parents almost certainly believed he was a man, but as an adult he probably understood his body as not quite working right. This is likely why he never married
@@paulobentoftw1162 Oh goodness no. This was a congenital thing. Let me explain myself better. Pulaski would have been *born* as an intersexed person (about 1% of the population is medically in a mixed place with gender, usually caused by some kind of unusual hormonal condition that starts before they are born. Intersex is a broad category, it varies. But physically, the person has some female and some male characteristics. Their genitals can be really complicated sometimes. They are born like this. ) In Pulaski's case, they have the skeleton from his grave, which perfectly matches Casimir in every way-- height, age, the location of healed war wounds, signs that he did extensive horseback riding. And they were even able to extract mitochondrial dna and match it to his relatives back in Poland! It is him for sure. But the bones are female. Anyone trained in it (a phys anthropologist, a forensic detective, an artist trained in the human figure) can identify a skeleton's age and gender. The shape, size and surface texture of certain bones, especially the skull and pelvis, are quite different! I learned how to do it in college, its very interesting. And Pulaski's bones are female. They thought it was maybe the wrong skeleton in the grave until they matched the DNA. But Casimir was almost certaibly NOT a woman pretensing to be a man. He had a nice mustache, a very male receding hairline, was baptised and raised a boy and was a living a super-macho life. He and his family almost certainly thought of him as a man, and he likely had genitals that looked basically male. (Though, sadly, they presumably weren't functional) The researchers think he had *Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia* This would mean that he was genetically female, but that he was producing the hormones of a man, which would have changed his external genitals before he was born, and caused him to develop male characteriatics growing up. This is all very interesting, and encouraging to the intersexed people out there, but its also just one part of a fascinating life story. He came all the way from Poland to help the Am Revolution and created the first American Cavalry. He even saved George Washington's life!
@@melissasaint3283 That is pretty cool. So it's all due to faults in his hormone production. Could this also be caused by some genetic problems that his parents may have had?
Tell that to Pułaski, he's the one who went and got himself shot. But if you're interested, the U.S.A. won the war, and Poland was soon entirely consumed by its neighbors despite the efforts of the Polish people. As for Pułaski, he became something of a lesser known national hero, though as far as I can tell he's better remembered in some parts of the U.S. compared to other, not sure about his reputation in Poland. Probably overshadowed by Tadeusz Kościuszko in both countries. However, Pułaski is still one of only 8 people to ever be named honorary citizens of the United States.
Jack Rackam Oh yeah, in Poland he is definitely overshadowed by Kościuszko, who is viewed as possibly the greatest national hero. Pułaski is also considered a national hero, although celebrated more for his involvement in the American Revolution than the Bar Confederation, which remains a little obscure and definitely controversial topic (at least compared to the Kościuszko Uprising). The general view on the Confederates could be summarised as "kind of good guys, but it's complicated", and it's afected by one's opinion on king Stanisław Poniatowski, who is one of the most controversial figures in Polish history. BTW I was joking, demanding a video about Kościuszko in my other comment. I remember we discussed it already, but honestly I still think it would be a good idea to do it one day. Or maybe a video explaining the partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in general, but this channel is clearly oriented on biographies.
+Artur M. Yeah, I noticed Poniatowski was a little complicated. I'm not totally sure how to feel about him myself. And Kósciuszko would be an excellent way to talk about the other two partitions, it's been twice now that I've only glossed over the first and there's such a good story there.
No. Those findings from 2015 were never published or peer reviewed and it has been six years already. Scientific fraud at its finest, ordered by smithsonian. Quite alarming. Hermaphroditism is natural though, and i’d like to pay my respect to those people nevertheless.
I have two interesting characters for the future episodes. Roman von Ungern Sternberg and Chevalier de Saint Georges.First one was the anti-bolshevik general and he was obsessed with mongolia.Second ne was the first black skin musician and french revolution general.
@@zepter00 that's great for him, but I'm still disappointed that it wasn't Garibaldi that was covered. His story and that of his wife is pretty amazing.
@@zepter00 ua-cam.com/video/gr3UMCEUKbk/v-deo.html this is too bad but it's the only material I found on him in English that also spoke of his time in South America, albeit very little... And it doesn't talk about his wife at all
*Poland-Lithuania. Really annoying when people only refer to the Commonwealth as Polish even though Poles were a minority in comparison to Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Jews, etc. according to most census sources
Poles constituted half of the Commonwealth's population at that time. Poles as well as Lithuanians (who saw themselves as Poles with a different ancestry) reffered to the entire country as "Poland".
Oh my poor Lithuania, always forgotten, the better, abused half of the longest political marriage, that the Poles remembered the long history of the marriage, that after their failed forced marriages, took our damn capital because, just because
Hey, I'm from Poland and I consider Lithuanians our brothers and sisters, and as a history enthusiast it bothers me as well that Lithuania is often forgotten, as it is a slight to historical accuracy. But could you tell me what the Lithuanian opinion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era is? I realize that what every nation teaches in its schools may be a little biased, but the general Polish understanding of the matter is that at first we united to fight a common enemy (the teutonic knights), and then in the 16th as Grand Duchy of Lithuania wasn't faring too good in the wars with Russia, it caused our countries to become even closer and finally culminated in 1569 with the Union of Lublin. And in any case, I think that ultimately uniting paid off, as separately our countries would had been conquered sooner. As for the Vilnius, it was a sad affair, but consider the fact that at the time, the vast majority of its inhabitants were Poles, with Lithuanian speaking people making up only 6% of population. Also, when Poland was defending itself from the Soviet Union during the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Lithuanians helped the Soviets and violated agreements with Poland by crossing the Foch Line and seizing some Polish territory, so it's not some easy, morally black&white situation.
@@ArghastOfTheAlliance hello, sorry for the later response; UA-cam sometimes floods me notifications, so some get missed. My apologies also if I offended you, I was riffing, most of comes from my late grandmother, who despised slavs, not without cause, not good causes but not without them. Alas I do not have much time, this is my lunch break, though tomorrow I have off for a national holiday, so I'll only try and respond to one point; why is Lithuania forgotten? Catherine Romanov, to put it simply; after the third Partition, she had anyone wanting to trade with her every growing empire treaties that forced the nations cartographers guilds to completely omit the ancient people ( Muscovites saw the Lithuanians as just another slavic group) but then the Ruriks were never the brightest of lines; they thought that a ceremonial title granted them the world (Cesar (or the Greek alternative mostly likely) into Tzar), because the emperor gave the title to the Kievian Prince who married his daughter to hide some of the embarrassment. And no Kiev is not the founder of the Rus, that would be Novgorod, but that doesn't look as good
@@ArghastOfTheAlliance finally found this again. Sorry, my family had a surprise independence day event so I was busy all day, then I lost the video. But I found it, saved to a playlist. So, what would you like me too explain first; my familial based bigotry, my education on the Baltics, or what I've gleamed especially on the relationship between the Commonwealth memebers?
@@dark_fire_ice I'd like to know what is the Lithuanian opinion on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era. Do you see it as a good thing that allowed both of our countries to resist enemies from all directions, or was it something forced and oppressive according to Lithuanian historians and people?
He wasn’t the only Polish in the American Revolution, Tadeusz Kościuszko he was a colonel in the continental army and helped build West Point. He became a brigadier general and then returned to Poland in an attempt to liberate it.
And he wrote letter to Thomas Jefferson where he said that he wants to free his slaves but Jefferson ignored it
Oh, is that why he got a bridge named after him?
Helped?
He designed the whole thing
So that’s what the park in Chicago is named after…
The Pauper Prince Himself!!!!
The Partition of Poland is literally the "Stop, he's already dead." meme
There once was a very brave Pole,
Who did it just right on the whole,
Now dead in the ground,
No trace to be found,
We bless you, and God rest your soul.
RULE BRITANNIA,AND GOD SAVE THE KING!
That is sweet awesome limerick
What’s with polish people and cavalry?
No idea what so ever. Not this for sure en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hodów
Nor that www.google.pl/search?q=winged+hussars+by+anatoly+telenik&client=safari&hl=pl-pl&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ4rKRtrPcAhUBXSwKHdO_D3oQ_AUIESgB&biw=320&bih=454
When country such big as PLC fights on all of its borders mobility of army is crucial. That and we have close relationship with Hungary, they was nomads first, so horses was part of their lives, we duplicated it.
Charging hard with Polearms
Poland is a very flat, open country. Perfect place for cavalry charges!
@@Cin3kTERTV thanks to us serbs you got very good cavalry,first polish hussars were the serbian mercenaries.
Some say Pulaski never truly died, and in America's greatest time of need he will return and save us all with a cavalry charge.
Dude. That would be so awesome!
Bruh that would make a amazing alt history/alt future fantasy scenario just imagine a lancer charge in the civil war being lead by his ghost
The way you pronounce “Kazimierz”, nice
Poor sod, he really got a raw deal at the end.
"Oh! Your soldiers aren't content with not being paid enough!? Well maybe you should pay them some more idiot!"
"B-but I have not enough of money when yuw don't pay me"
"Shut up, you can't even speak proper American!"
Ben Franklin as Nick Fury? It took me a second to realize what you were going for there.
Growing up in Chicago, we got Pulaski day off 👍🏽
Heck yeah! This was pretty damn good. Nice balance of humor with research, plus you actually pronounced Kazimierz Pułaski.
Now do Kościuszko :)
Artur M. 👍
koshushko?
@@Dostoron Koshchooshko or something like that.
The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was the United States of late medieval and Renaissance Eras.
wtf you add lithuania, it's poland
Ignas Lithuania was a major part of the kingdom?
Ignas Lithuania was part of the commonwealth
Ray Z Lithuania wasn’t even a major part of the Lithuanian part of the commonwealth. It was like the 4th largest ethnic group, and Lithuanian wasn’t even an official language of the commonwealth. Lithuanian nobility were second to Polish, and much of them went through polanization, where they adopted Polish culture, language and customs so they would have better standing in the nation. Technically it was called Poland-Lithuania, but it was dominated by Poland.
A wild Filing cabinet Lithuanians were the 4th largest group yet they rulled belarussians and ukrainians at the time. Yes, most nobles spoke Polish, its just like the european union. Just because most politics speak english doesnt mean its english dominated. Without Grand duchy of Lithuania, the commonwealth would have never existed. Also lets not forget that at the time there was not national identity and neither polish nor lithuanian people really called them selfs that. There is a reason after all why there is both Vytis and the polish coat of arms on the flag.
The life and times of Cicero
+Osiris Boy do I have some thoughts on Cicero. Unfortunately I've got a different Roman in store next, but Cicero is such a character
Cicero is awesome cause the main message tohis contemporaries could be "whatever Cicero does, do OPPOSITE and you'll do fine".
It’s a shame the Poles get forgotten. Would have made great Hamilton characters.
Not an accident they were actively canceled in US memory, just like Polish Lithuanian (including jewish) and Italian migrants in early XX century were oppressed. Pulaski and especially Kosciuszko were memory holed, promotion of Polish jokes in the media, Italians portrayed in movies as criminals etc. And it’s not Americans who are behind it. It’s been always the same war as it was in the beginning.
I am in awe of how great these videos are. Lots of channels do history with their own spin, but you find the foot notes of history and turn them into a chuckle. I still request you do one on your namesake!
Love you Avengers reference dude you're awesome
saw it year after release, thank you youtube reccomendation, thats pretty epic
My hometown is named after Pulaski
I never realized it but that first revolutionary war battle this video mentioned was the battle of Brandywine which happened not to far from where I lived. There was even a reenactment today. Pulaski Highway in Newark, Delaware is named after him.
These animations are beautiful, thank you. Especially the escalating Ottoman.
You can't expect all the famous people to go to war unscathed.
Finally someone pronounces Casimir Pulaski correctly
its an all right pronunciation, he says the letters correctly but he accents it weirdly
still way better than any other american
Oh, Fort Pulaski, I live near it, it's huge
You are criminally under appreciate this is just as good if not better then almost every other history centric channel right now.
So, America's modern mechanized cavalry traces It's origin from the Polish tradition? How cool is that man
American winged hussars, between that and our Roman inspired political philosophy and British naval tradition we've got to be the coolest empire in history.
It was a Pole and a Hungarian, Kovacs, who founded the American cavalry. Michael Kovats recommended Pulaski to Ben Franklin. Both of them died in America fighting the revolution.
I am Polish and this video is hilarious! :-D Please make more!
When the Winged Hussars arrived
Just like normal Polanski day. I stayed home and learned nothing ❤️
4:00 pulaski inglisz iz de best
“Yuo is need of be work harder” for that I lost it 🤣
Come on have to do Baron Von Stuben next, the guy who actually pulled the Continental army together into a proper army
Ah, von Stuben... that guy was something else. ;) A Prussian that became an American and gave the US a proper army. Sadly it wouldn't use things like the goose-step...
@@TheTrueAdept goose stepping is for Communists, Nazis, and other authoritarian oriented regime's. Besides learning how to march normally in formation was hard enough for me as an Airman lol
@@rc59191 ... the Goose step was _Prussia's thing_ not the Nazis or any authoritarian regime of the modern era. The sad thing is a lot of Prusian stuff was coopted by the Nazis. 😠
What von Stuben did was essentially taking all the flair out of it because the Americans wouldn't work with him otherwise.
Lucky for you I was watching this on the first Monday in March
0:42 *_i can hear the hamilton fans screaming_*
2:58 *_now they’re shrieking :)_*
Ah that polish music sounds so familiar! Damn i forgot the title
You're in luck - I list all the music used in order of appearance in the description of every video!
Me like. Long live poland.
US Army was trained by a Frenchman and a Prussian. US Cavalry was trained by a Pole.
That's like the Exodia of all trainers.
Oh, apparently US Navy was fathered by a Scotsman and an Irishman.
3:16
He's writing right to left.
Can you do more on anyone from medieval English monarchy or anyone from the middle ages and vlad tepes? Love the blend of humour and history!
Another amazing short. Or shot.
ha
Lol I was thinking of doing a video on this guy too but I just can't make it as funny. Good job!
I'm 5 months later just because I've watched it again. You're right Stefan. You're not funny.
@@StefanMilo You can always make a video about Kościuszko.
Stable video👍
Writing from IL, happy late Casimir Pulaski Day 2021!
Hey! My home city got relevance for once. (Buffalo)
We have a Pulaski Highway here in Maryland. Pulaski's death was a plot point in one of the Outlander books. I was recently reading an article that said that they opened what was supposed to be Pulaski's grave in Georgia and the body had more of a female aspect to the hips. The DNA came back as related to Pulaski's family in Poland, so it is possible that he was intersex. If he presented as male on the outside and never tried to have children, he might have never known this.
I really like your video style, can you make a video on Kosciusko too?
Thank you for the Buffalo shout out with dingus day😊
Hell yeah new video
And then there was Kosciuška
abb ba you Czech and your spelling 10/10 🤣🤣🤣
@@19MAD95 Kosciuška is the real lithuanian spelling
Didn't he have something to do with a popular digging tool called the 'Pulaski"? If you need to break up dirt by hand to dig a trench, this tool works better than a pick axe. Great videos, thanks.
It's about time someone dispelled the lie that France is America's first ally. No, POLAND is America's first and greatest ally, now and forever. Next is Australia.
This isn't about Poland being an ally.
Nicholas Benjamin Fury Franklin.... LOL!
Thaddeus Cozuisko next!
Like so he can see
I see all
Me right now :yes!!! (pretty please can you, I love your channel and your narration in UsefulCharts)
I have actually been to Fort Pulaski
*Takes a moment of my time to look up the Liberum Veto.*
How in the holy fock did anyone think this was a good idea to implement?!
It was made a thing by the magnates, also called little kings, nobles who had enough power and money to create armies as large as small kingdoms in Europe; some of them even funded entire armies/wars against the Russians, Swedes, or Ottomans. The Liberum Veto was put in place by them so no one could try to take away their power and essentially turned the Commonwealth from a constitutional monarchy with true power being held in the Sejm (Polish Parliament) into an oligarchy.
Tradition of Liberum Veto is thousands years old among Slavic tribes, according to Brittanica. Because it actually works.
A polonized Lithuanian. There's so many interesting stories involving the people of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Did he have a lithuanian name or just the polish one?
"...helped the British get the jump on him while they were sleeping..." South Jersey sends its regards. His first mistake was coming to New Jersey. His second was going anywhere south of Trenton.
Oh yeah, I read about him in Les Misèrables actually!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, he shows up in Les Mis? That's awesome!
@Jack Rackam Hey Jack awesome to get a reply from you, yup he is referenced along with some other notable names actually, it’s in the third Volume of the Book called “Marius” but I cannot remember exactly which chapter. I am pretty sure it is him, because he i looked him up and the name seems very familiar, and also information about where he is born now in modern day Belarus, which would have been part of Russian Empire and Commonwealth I believe.
@@aymarafan7669 Cool! I've never actually read the book, I'll have to go looking for him sometime!
@Jack Rackam Just to let you know I have made a mistake it was actually Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, and he is from what is now Mieračoûščyna, Belarus, but still very interesting that he is mentioned alongside Washington even in Les Mes. Casimir Pułaski was from Warsaw but both men fought in the American Revolution and were from same Commonwealth. The polish name of the city that Kościuszko was called oh boy here it is: Mereczowszczyzna. Yeah Polish seems somewhat difficult but still and interesting language!
@Jack Rackam Also great job with “Project Revolution, very good video that you presented!
really good pronunciation a Polish name
Meanwhile the Prussian Fredrick Von Steuben gets all the credit for being the European who whipped the Americans into shape
As a Wisconsin man, I don't know anything about this supposed holiday; secondly, if Wisconsin has a sizable polish population, why in the hell does no one here celebrate it
You’re not from Wisconsin 😂😂
did you seriously do an Avengers gag? I love it.
Oh shit was that a *MOTHER FUCKING HAMILTON REFERENCE*
Ah, Mr. Benjamin Fury Uhhh Franklin, Esquire
Are there any movies about this guy?
very few. until recently Connections between USA and Royal Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania were a taboo subject.
Even better example: Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who with Pulaski were heros of both nations. I, as a Polish, am shocked how little information is available on them in english, especially on Kosciuszko. It’s like someone was trying to cancel them.
Thank God for the last decade improved relations between the two countries started to reverse that.
ooo GR got name dropped woooo!!!
Please tell me Ben Franklin wearing an eye patch talking about a new nation that needs fighters is a nod to Metal Gear Solid
Was going for a Nick Fury reference, but I'll take it!
@@JackRackam Oh. I'm dumb. That actually makes a lot more sense! Haha!
RIP
Its not Poland, Its Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Yes
So that's why we have a holiday on the man...
Cool.
Music?
dang
It's called the Commonwealth or Poland Lithuania.
Pulaski Virginia baby the only reason it didn't win worst city in Pulaski is because it wasn't technically a city ,but a town hell yeah.
Ear-a-kwoi confederation
Ha! I’m getting married on that Blue Bridge in that picture for Grand Rapids
Congratulations!
Thanks man, love your channel!
What a fun life this guy had. Till you know. Funny video.
He was a total badass. Franklin and Lafayette recruiting Pulaski for the revolution was like Obi Wan Kanobi and Luke Skywalker recruiting Han Solo in the Cantina scene. The actual story behind it is crazy. The Americans needed a king killer and Pulaski had just gotten out of prison on charges of regicide.
One of those perfect moments in history. Till, you know....
Previously? More like 3 videos ago.
Didn't Lee serve under the Polish king? You reckon they didn't like each other too much?
IM IN
Watch the beginning in confusing. "WHAT?!"
We have a pretty good idea of where he is buried, considering it had a monument over it and the bones were verified by mitochondrial dna.
Also....the bones indicate that casimir may have been intersexed.
Intersexed?
@@paulobentoftw1162 Yes. Thats a medical statement, not a personal or political one. It is a recent discovery when they examined his bones. He was raised a boy and he and his parents almost certainly believed he was a man, but as an adult he probably understood his body as not quite working right.
This is likely why he never married
@@melissasaint3283 So, what happened to his body that gave his bones markings? Did he cut his genitals off? Performed 18th century sex change surgery?
@@paulobentoftw1162
Oh goodness no.
This was a congenital thing.
Let me explain myself better.
Pulaski would have been *born* as an intersexed person (about 1% of the population is medically in a mixed place with gender, usually caused by some kind of unusual hormonal condition that starts before they are born. Intersex is a broad category, it varies. But physically, the person has some female and some male characteristics. Their genitals can be really complicated sometimes. They are born like this. )
In Pulaski's case, they have the skeleton from his grave, which perfectly matches Casimir in every way-- height, age, the location of healed war wounds, signs that he did extensive horseback riding.
And they were even able to extract mitochondrial dna and match it to his relatives back in Poland! It is him for sure.
But the bones are female.
Anyone trained in it (a phys anthropologist, a forensic detective, an artist trained in the human figure) can identify a skeleton's age and gender. The shape, size and surface texture of certain bones, especially the skull and pelvis, are quite different!
I learned how to do it in college, its very interesting.
And Pulaski's bones are female.
They thought it was maybe the wrong skeleton in the grave until they matched the DNA.
But Casimir was almost certaibly NOT a woman pretensing to be a man. He had a nice mustache, a very male receding hairline, was baptised and raised a boy and was a living a super-macho life. He and his family almost certainly thought of him as a man, and he likely had genitals that looked basically male.
(Though, sadly, they presumably weren't functional)
The researchers think he had
*Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia*
This would mean that he was genetically female, but that he was producing the hormones of a man, which would have changed his external genitals before he was born, and caused him to develop male characteriatics growing up.
This is all very interesting, and encouraging to the intersexed people out there, but its also just one part of a fascinating life story. He came all the way from Poland to help the Am Revolution and created the first American Cavalry. He even saved George Washington's life!
@@melissasaint3283 That is pretty cool. So it's all due to faults in his hormone production. Could this also be caused by some genetic problems that his parents may have had?
Where can I find that gunshot sound at 4:35?
+Arthur Vermillion I don't know exactly which video it was, but if you search "Musket SFX" on UA-cam you should find it
HE NOTICED ME!
But seriously, thanks.
DUDE! YOU CAN'T JUST END IT LIKE THAT!!!
Tell that to Pułaski, he's the one who went and got himself shot. But if you're interested, the U.S.A. won the war, and Poland was soon entirely consumed by its neighbors despite the efforts of the Polish people. As for Pułaski, he became something of a lesser known national hero, though as far as I can tell he's better remembered in some parts of the U.S. compared to other, not sure about his reputation in Poland. Probably overshadowed by Tadeusz Kościuszko in both countries. However, Pułaski is still one of only 8 people to ever be named honorary citizens of the United States.
Jack Rackam Oh yeah, in Poland he is definitely overshadowed by Kościuszko, who is viewed as possibly the greatest national hero. Pułaski is also considered a national hero, although celebrated more for his involvement in the American Revolution than the Bar Confederation, which remains a little obscure and definitely controversial topic (at least compared to the Kościuszko Uprising). The general view on the Confederates could be summarised as "kind of good guys, but it's complicated", and it's afected by one's opinion on king Stanisław Poniatowski, who is one of the most controversial figures in Polish history.
BTW I was joking, demanding a video about Kościuszko in my other comment. I remember we discussed it already, but honestly I still think it would be a good idea to do it one day. Or maybe a video explaining the partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in general, but this channel is clearly oriented on biographies.
+Artur M. Yeah, I noticed Poniatowski was a little complicated. I'm not totally sure how to feel about him myself. And Kósciuszko would be an excellent way to talk about the other two partitions, it's been twice now that I've only glossed over the first and there's such a good story there.
Jack Rackam Pulaski is a father of american cavalery. Organisation, doctrine and tactic.
Was Casimir recently confirmed to be Intersex?
No. Those findings from 2015 were never published or peer reviewed and it has been six years already.
Scientific fraud at its finest, ordered by smithsonian. Quite alarming.
Hermaphroditism is natural though, and i’d like to pay my respect to those people nevertheless.
Stanlislaus was actually one of Catherine the Great's former lovers!
Intro Song?
+serkan_GS05 All the music is listed in the description, but the intro song is called Hidden Past by Kevin Macleod
I have two interesting characters for the future episodes. Roman von Ungern Sternberg and Chevalier de Saint Georges.First one was the anti-bolshevik general and he was obsessed with mongolia.Second ne was the first black skin musician and french revolution general.
Hero of two nations and it isn't Garibaldi? 😔
Without Pulaski could be no USA at all.
@@zepter00 that's great for him, but I'm still disappointed that it wasn't Garibaldi that was covered. His story and that of his wife is pretty amazing.
F. OPE Maybe soon
@@zepter00 ua-cam.com/video/gr3UMCEUKbk/v-deo.html this is too bad but it's the only material I found on him in English that also spoke of his time in South America, albeit very little... And it doesn't talk about his wife at all
My dog is named after him.
George Washington: hah, he thinks we fight for liberty
People in America dont know their own history...most of people nerver heard of Pulaski but instead Prussia and this bullshit
Technically you can just call him Andrew if you don't want to go out of your way to use the Polish pronunciation
1:23 oof
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*Poland-Lithuania.
Really annoying when people only refer to the Commonwealth as Polish even though Poles were a minority in comparison to Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Jews, etc. according to most census sources
Poles constituted half of the Commonwealth's population at that time. Poles as well as Lithuanians (who saw themselves as Poles with a different ancestry) reffered to the entire country as "Poland".
Oh my poor Lithuania, always forgotten, the better, abused half of the longest political marriage, that the Poles remembered the long history of the marriage, that after their failed forced marriages, took our damn capital because, just because
Hey, I'm from Poland and I consider Lithuanians our brothers and sisters, and as a history enthusiast it bothers me as well that Lithuania is often forgotten, as it is a slight to historical accuracy. But could you tell me what the Lithuanian opinion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era is? I realize that what every nation teaches in its schools may be a little biased, but the general Polish understanding of the matter is that at first we united to fight a common enemy (the teutonic knights), and then in the 16th as Grand Duchy of Lithuania wasn't faring too good in the wars with Russia, it caused our countries to become even closer and finally culminated in 1569 with the Union of Lublin. And in any case, I think that ultimately uniting paid off, as separately our countries would had been conquered sooner.
As for the Vilnius, it was a sad affair, but consider the fact that at the time, the vast majority of its inhabitants were Poles, with Lithuanian speaking people making up only 6% of population. Also, when Poland was defending itself from the Soviet Union during the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Lithuanians helped the Soviets and violated agreements with Poland by crossing the Foch Line and seizing some Polish territory, so it's not some easy, morally black&white situation.
@@ArghastOfTheAlliance hello, sorry for the later response; UA-cam sometimes floods me notifications, so some get missed. My apologies also if I offended you, I was riffing, most of comes from my late grandmother, who despised slavs, not without cause, not good causes but not without them. Alas I do not have much time, this is my lunch break, though tomorrow I have off for a national holiday, so I'll only try and respond to one point; why is Lithuania forgotten? Catherine Romanov, to put it simply; after the third Partition, she had anyone wanting to trade with her every growing empire treaties that forced the nations cartographers guilds to completely omit the ancient people ( Muscovites saw the Lithuanians as just another slavic group) but then the Ruriks were never the brightest of lines; they thought that a ceremonial title granted them the world (Cesar (or the Greek alternative mostly likely) into Tzar), because the emperor gave the title to the Kievian Prince who married his daughter to hide some of the embarrassment. And no Kiev is not the founder of the Rus, that would be Novgorod, but that doesn't look as good
@@dark_fire_ice All is cool, I'm not offended, also don't feel compelled to reply as soon as possible, do it whenever you want.
@@ArghastOfTheAlliance finally found this again. Sorry, my family had a surprise independence day event so I was busy all day, then I lost the video. But I found it, saved to a playlist. So, what would you like me too explain first; my familial based bigotry, my education on the Baltics, or what I've gleamed especially on the relationship between the Commonwealth memebers?
@@dark_fire_ice I'd like to know what is the Lithuanian opinion on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era. Do you see it as a good thing that allowed both of our countries to resist enemies from all directions, or was it something forced and oppressive according to Lithuanian historians and people?
Get ready, angry poles incoming
How about joyful Poles?
THEY’RE COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN!
How the fuck you are still on 5k subs? I thought you'll be at more than 100k by now
Texas revolution