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Originally Posted by issybird
Google hits are personalized so that those most relevant to the searcher (in Google's algorithm) come first. My guess is that a lot of southern-oriented searches plus your location, if you have it turned on, were as responsible as its being Oprah's hometown.
There's a full-length bio of Kosciuszko in published by Macmillan and he figures prominently in histories of the American Revolution, so I don't think he's been forgotten.
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Thanks for the info about personalized hits. That probably explains why I got the hits that I did, in the positions that I did.
Again, I _vaguely_ remember that Koscius(z)ko did play a part in the American Revolution, too. There were several high-ranking/notable foreigners who helped out. Most prominent in my mind is a German (from Prussia, if I remember correctly). He helped drill troops . . . . I think that he was at Valley Forge. I don't remember the chap's name. Anyway, I'm getting too far off topic . . . .