Kosciuszko showed compassion for the English prisoners of war, and even though the rebel soldiers had little food, he shared his own meager rations with the captives. (Many years later a Polish traveler to Queensland, Australia, fell ill with yellow fever and was nursed back to health by a local shopkeeper. The Australian brought the sick Pole to his home and cared for him, explaining that his grandfather would have starved to death as a prisoner during the American Revolution, if not for a Polish soldier named Kosciuszko who shared his bread.)
