. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^ configuration of land andwater, were on the side of the Danes, ^vhosemain object it was to prevent their foes fromsetting foot on the Schleswig island of Alsen, 15. forming a stepping-stone, so to speak, to Den-mark itself, much in the same way as the islandof Anglesey does to Ireland. To continue thecomparison, the Menai Strait corresponds to theAlsen-Sund which separates the mainland ofSchleswig from the island of Alsen. Of thisisland the chief town is Sonderburg, which wasconnected by the mainland, into which it looksover, by two pontoon bridges, at t
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ^ configuration of land andwater, were on the side of the Danes, ^vhosemain object it was to prevent their foes fromsetting foot on the Schleswig island of Alsen, 15. forming a stepping-stone, so to speak, to Den-mark itself, much in the same way as the islandof Anglesey does to Ireland. To continue thecomparison, the Menai Strait corresponds to theAlsen-Sund which separates the mainland ofSchleswig from the island of Alsen. Of thisisland the chief town is Sonderburg, which wasconnected by the mainland, into which it looksover, by two pontoon bridges, at the end ofwhich the Danes threw up a tetc-du-pont^ or bridge-head en-trenchment, to de-fend the approachand passage ; whileabout a couple ofmiles further inlandthey had constructeda chain of no fevrerthan ten heavyforts, or redoubts,all connected bylesser earthworksand line of re-doubts, about threemiles long, ranright across theneck of a penin-sula of the main-land, called theSundewitt, one endresting on the Alsen-Sund and the otherbay, of the Baltic, called theThe redoubts were placedof a ridge which overlooked lELD-MARSHAL VON WRANGEL. on a gulf, the brow
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