. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . whole empire shehad in Europe in that year! Since then, shehas advanced her frontier 850 miles towardsVienna, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Paris;she has approached 450 miles nearer to Con-stantinople ; she has possessed herself of thecapital of Poland ; and has advanced to withina few miles of the capital of Sweden, from which,when Peter the Great mounted the throne, herfrontier was distant 300 miles. Since that time,she has stretched herself forward about 1000 milestowards India, and the same distance t
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . whole empire shehad in Europe in that year! Since then, shehas advanced her frontier 850 miles towardsVienna, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Paris;she has approached 450 miles nearer to Con-stantinople ; she has possessed herself of thecapital of Poland ; and has advanced to withina few miles of the capital of Sweden, from which,when Peter the Great mounted the throne, herfrontier was distant 300 miles. Since that time,she has stretched herself forward about 1000 milestowards India, and the same distance towards thecapital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationedat her furthest frontier post on the western shoreof the Caspian, has as great a distance to marchback to Moscow as onward to Attock on theIndus ; and is actually further from St Petersburgthan from Lahore, the capital of the battalions of the Russian Imperial Guardthat invaded Persia found, at the termination ofthe war, that they were as near to Herat as to * Progress and Present Position, of Russia in the
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