Republican (constitutionalist) President Jefferson writes to Count Thaddeus Kosciuszko, of the Russian enclave of Poland, on the impracticality of granting former officers of the Army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth commissions in the Army of the united States: “I hasten to inform you, that we are now actually engaged in reducing our military establishment one third, and discharging one third of our officers.”
[restored 8/15/2026]
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution—and What It Means for America Today, (New York: Crown Forum, 2008), 33.
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