. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . carcely left the Elster Bridge behind him when itwas blown up, and for all who were on this side of it their only meansof escape was cut oft. Many, and among them Poniatowski, weredrowned in attempting to cross the swollen river. Resistance wasnow at an end. Very prudently had Napoleon, intent only on sav-ing his Frenchmen, committed the defence of the city to the Polesand soldiers of the Confederation of tlie Rliine. One division of themafter another was disarmed. Sliortly after one oclock the EmperorAl
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . carcely left the Elster Bridge behind him when itwas blown up, and for all who were on this side of it their only meansof escape was cut oft. Many, and among them Poniatowski, weredrowned in attempting to cross the swollen river. Resistance wasnow at an end. Very prudently had Napoleon, intent only on sav-ing his Frenchmen, committed the defence of the city to the Polesand soldiers of the Confederation of tlie Rliine. One division of themafter another was disarmed. Sliortly after one oclock the EmperorAlexander and King Frederick William made tlieir entry amid thehuzzas of tlie rescued and liberated inhabitants. The king ofSaxony was conveyed to Berlin as a prisoner; and his dominionspassed under control of the central administrative bureau, in whosename Prince Repnin assumed the office of governor-geueral. Vol. XVII.—21 322 TUE WAi; OF LIBERATION OF ISIS. Since those days in October of world-wide liistorical moment,the name of Leipsic (Fig. 58), previously celebrated only as a rich. Battle at Leipsic Ortultc-r 1S-IJ>, l»l:l. Fii;. ö.-«. — Buttle vi Leipsic, October , commercial city, and as a flourishing seat of the sciences, has becomeennobled for the German race by the remembrance of liberation from
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