To the outside world the hangings in Warsaw looked as if the Polish revolution had taken a turn toward Jacobin mob rule, while the commander in chief was busy issuing proclamations and appeals. When even his dear friend Princess Isabella Czartoryska wrote to criticize him, Kosciuszko felt he had to respond. “How wrongly you judge me princess, if you don’t yet know what is in my heart, you hurt my feelings and way of thinking,” Kosciuszko replied. “Men may blacken me and our uprising, but God sees that we are not starting a French revolution. I want to destroy the enemy. I am giving some
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