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The answer is uncertain as contemporary sources about his burial are conflicting. What is clear is that Pulaski was wounded during the siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and he was taken aboard the US ship Wasp, anchored near Savannah, for medical treatment. He died three days later. What happened after that becomes more difficult to determine. Some contemporary sources say his body was then buried at sea while some others claim he was buried at Greenwich plantation near Savannah. A body from the plantation cemetery, believed by some to be Pulaski was later reinterred at Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia and a monument to Pulaski was erected there. Bowing to pressure to positively identify the body, the remains buried at Montery Square were exhumed in 1996 and subjected to a lengthy 8 year forensic investigation. Unfortunately the researchers were not ably to extract usable DNA samples from the bones and the researchers could only conclude that the skeletal remains generally matched Pulaski's physical description. The exhumed remains were reinterred in the Monterey Square tomb in 2004.

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