quite different, and these must receive brief mention.
The patriotic Polish opposition to the growing
Russian influence, men who wished their country to
retain its independence and Polish character, organized
a poorly prepared military opposition to the Russians,
called the Bar Confederation because it had its head-
quarters at Bar, a city then in Poland, but 70 miles
east of the present-day Polish boundary. The revolu-
tion was not supported as its leaders had expected it
to be and though it dragged out its course from 1768
to 1772 it never had any chance of success.
The military command of these revolutionary
forces was gradually won by a young man named
Kazimierz Pulaski, who exiled by Russia after the
partition of 1772, eventually joined Washington in
the American Revolution, became a brigadier-general
and commander of American cavalry, and then, as
organizer and leader of the Pulaski Legion, lost his
life in the battle of Savannah in 1779, gaining
immortality in American history as one of the Poles
who lent their swords to the winning of American
liberty.
The day of Pulaski's sacrificial death for a free
America, October 11, is now a day of special celebra-
tions in the United States, and the name of Pulaski
is perpetuated in statues, streets, buildings, and even
-several towns and counties named in his honour. A
distinguished Pole aptly expressed the sentiment of
^:his nation when he said, during the Pulaski celebration
'of 1932, * we rejoice that in the glorious edifice of the
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