. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^%^. ^V^£. V OLD TOWN, WARS.^W. danger too late. He hurriedly occupied astrong position on the line of the Bzura riverwith 30,000 men, in the hope of barring theRussian advance ; but on August 15th theRussians, in overwhelming force, drove thePoles from the river bank and forced them backupon Warsaw. Their city was now threatenedb} 60,000 troops, who cut them off from for freedom, the fact that Prussia, thoughnominally a neutral state, was aiding the com-mon enemy, was not reassuring. So far back asJune this fact had been known, and GeneralSkryznecki
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^%^. ^V^£. V OLD TOWN, WARS.^W. danger too late. He hurriedly occupied astrong position on the line of the Bzura riverwith 30,000 men, in the hope of barring theRussian advance ; but on August 15th theRussians, in overwhelming force, drove thePoles from the river bank and forced them backupon Warsaw. Their city was now threatenedb} 60,000 troops, who cut them off from for freedom, the fact that Prussia, thoughnominally a neutral state, was aiding the com-mon enemy, was not reassuring. So far back asJune this fact had been known, and GeneralSkryznecki had written to the King of Prussiaenumerating the various acts indulged in byhis ministers, and demanding that they shouldcease. In this historic document the General BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. proved that the Prussians were supplying theRussians with food from the storehouses atThorn, that they had lent their skilled artilleryto the Russians, that they had supplied ammu-nition and uniforms made in Prussia, and thatmost of
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