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Born to a noble Polish family in what is now Belarus, Tadeusz Kościuszko received an excellent military education at a military academy in Warsaw and a Parisian academy where he studied military and civil architecture. Following his education, he became a mathematics tutor for the daughters of a Polish general and after a failed elopement with one of the daughters he fled to the American colonies in 1776 to give his service to the American colonists in rebellion. He first worked as an engineer planning fortification around the residences of the Continental Congress. In the spring of 1777, Kościuszko became attached to General Horatio Gates' army in Fort Ticonderoga. The fortifications he built contributed to the surrender of John Burgoyne at Saratoga. For the next two years Kościuszko strengthened the fortifications at West Point, which Washington called the “key to America.” In March 1780 the Continental Congress appointed him chief of the engineering corps. Following this promotion, Kościuszko was sent to the southern theater where he served for the rest of the war. As a signal of their gratitude towards Kościuszko the United States granted him citizenship and promoted him to Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. (battefilds.org)
During the Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War:

On learning of the American Revolution, Kościuszko, himself a man of revolutionary aspirations, sympathetic to the American cause and an advocate of human rights, sailed for America in June 1776 along with other foreign officers, likely with the help of a French supporter of the American revolutionaries, Pierre Beaumarchais. On 30 August 1776, Kościuszko submitted an application to the Second Continental Congress; he was assigned to the Continental Army the next day. (Wikipedia)

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Kazimierz Pulaski (born March 6, 1745 in Warsaw, Poland — died October 11, 1779 on board a ship between Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, US), emblemed 'Slepowron', became known as the "Father of the American Cavalry". He was a Polish patriot and US colonial army officer, and hero both of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar or the Bar Confederation) and the American Revolution.

Kazimierz was the son of Jozef Pulaski (1704–69), one of the initiators of the Bar Confederation (1768–1772), which was an association of Polish nobles formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in order to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. As a young man Pulaski distinguished himself in the defense of Berdichev (1768) and Czestochowa (1770–71) against Russian forces. In October 1771 he unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap Poland's King Stanislaw II to the confederates’ camp and was falsely accused of an attempt on the king. After Prussia and Austria invaded Poland in the spring of 1772, Pulaski left for Saxony, later moving to France where he lived in financial straits.

In December 1776 in Paris Pulaski met the American statesman Benjamin Franklin, who recommended him to General George Washington. Pulaski landed in America in June 1777. He served in Washington’s army at Brandywine, at Germantown and in the winter campaign of 1777–78, and was made general and chief of cavalry by Congress. The Pulaski Legion, a mixed unit he formed in 1778, made use of his experience in guerrilla warfare. In May 1779 Pulaski defended Charleston. Wounded at Savannah on October 9 1779, he died aboard the warship Wasp. (Poland.pl)