now, in addition to jon lapierre, the joos decided that not only did they want to be part of the army but he decided he wanted to form a jewish cavalry made completely of joos. this was the first holy jewish military units since biblical times. kosciuszko was very pleased with this, and he wrote in his newspaper, the government gazette which was the propaganda organ of his revolution that nothing will convince other nations of the sanctity of our cause and justice of our revolution and the fact that we set aside the different religions and traditions of those who support our uprising and that of their own free will that offered to lay down their lives. kosciuszko's article went on to explain how jews suffered over the centuries but now they were willing to die for poland and when the fighting started, even the ambassadors from austria and sweden started writing to their king saying this is unusual because even the jews are taking up arms. a couple of weeks later an appeal was written to the jews saying, listen children of the tribes of israel, he to have in their heart implanted the i