After the Empress Catherine died, the Emperor Paul liberated him, offered him command in the Russian service, and presented him with his

own sword. He declined it, saying, " T no longer need a sword, since I have no longer a country to defend." He revisited the United States in 1797, when the Congress granted him land in consideration of his services. He afterwards lived in Switzerland, and there he died in 1817. A public funeral was made for him at Warsaw. Twelve years afterwards, the cadets of "West Point, actuated by love for the man and reverence for

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his deeds, erected a beautiful marble monument to bis memory, within the ruins of Old Fort Clinton, at a cost of about $5,000. It bears upon one side the name of -- " Kosciuszko," and on another, the simple inscription -- "Eeected by the Coups of Cadets, 1828." It is a conspicuous and pleasing object to voyagers upon the river. )

Passing along the verge of the cliff, southward from Kosciuszko's monument, the visitor soon reaches another memorial stone. It is of white marble, the chief member being a fluted column, entwined by a laurel wreath, held in the beak of an eagle, perched upon its top. The

pedestal is of temple form, square, with a row of encircling stars upon its entablature, and a cannon, like a supporting column, at each corner. It was erected to commemorate a battle fought between a detachment of United States troops, under Major Francis L. Dade, and a party of Seminole Indians, in the Everglades of Florida, on the 28th of December, 1835. The detachment consisted of one hundred and eight men, all of whom, save three, were massacred by the savages on that occasion. The troops nobly defended themselves, and made no attempt to retreat.