Pulaski Casimir
Pu·las·ki
(po͝o-lăs′kē, pə-), Casimir 1747-1779. Polish patriot and general who aided American forces in the Revolutionary War, commanding the defense of Charleston (1779) and leading a cavalry brigade in the siege of Savannah.
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