. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . en Memel and Pregel, and make iiiiuprisoner. The slowness of Wittgenstein, or his numerical weak-ness, suffered the small corps, half lost already, to slip away fromhim. The only result was that Czernicheff, with his Cossacks,ventured across the Vistula, and the moment in whicli it was ])cr-hajjs possible by a liold onset to eajiture the scarcely defensible for-tresses on the Vistula was neglected and lost. As soon as York entered the province, he again assumed tlieoffice of governor-general. All awaited
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . en Memel and Pregel, and make iiiiuprisoner. The slowness of Wittgenstein, or his numerical weak-ness, suffered the small corps, half lost already, to slip away fromhim. The only result was that Czernicheff, with his Cossacks,ventured across the Vistula, and the moment in whicli it was ])cr-hajjs possible by a liold onset to eajiture the scarcely defensible for-tresses on the Vistula was neglected and lost. As soon as York entered the province, he again assumed tlieoffice of governor-general. All awaited with buining impatiencethe call to arms, in order to form a vmion witli the Russians, anddestroy the detested French. York, indeed, was greatly embarrassedwhen he saw before his eyes the profouud disorder of the new allies,which was in such glaring contrast to their pretensions. Conse-quently the more was he shocked bj the news (January 10), con-trary to all expectation, announcing that the king icjcctcd thecon\iuitinu. He saw his actinu ;ilrcady stigmatized as cowardly PLATE V I I ALEXANDRE 2)K TOriKS
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