eventually, kosciuszko was able to shut off charleton and the revolution ended. and he actually fought in the last battle of the revolution. now, at the end of the war, the americans owed kosciuszko a salary of $12,280. they couldn't pay him because the u.s. treasury was not set up yet. and they gave him bonds bearing interest at 6%, and it didn't help him, because he wanted to go back to poland, and so he met this man, heim solomon, and he was a polish jew who came to poland in 1775. and he hung his shingle at 22 wall street, which was already a -- new york city was all a pollyglot city and he traveled around europe and spoke different languages and started trading incurrences and knew all of the european laws, and he made a lot of money, and he opened a shop and traded, quote, every species of much in every branch of business. well, solomon became friends with jefferson, madison, and a lot of the people he agreed with politically, so he would give them loans, and these were loans that he didn't want paid back. and this is one of the greatest lost heros of the a