Insurrection of Poland in 1830-31: And the Russian Rule Preceding it Since 1815 |
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... Lithuanians were commissioned to prepare the draft of a constitution for the provinces , and two Polish generals were to draw up a plan for organising a national army . The necessity of calming the patriotism which found its focus in ...
... Lithuanians were commissioned to prepare the draft of a constitution for the provinces , and two Polish generals were to draw up a plan for organising a national army . The necessity of calming the patriotism which found its focus in ...
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... Lithuanians , though prover- bial for caution , fell into the snare , hoping to enjoy from him the benefits of a constitution , whilst their own efforts might have rendered them free and independent . Napoleon , on his part , did much ...
... Lithuanians , though prover- bial for caution , fell into the snare , hoping to enjoy from him the benefits of a constitution , whilst their own efforts might have rendered them free and independent . Napoleon , on his part , did much ...
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... Lithuanians rise of themselves , " said he , " and " then I shall not abandon them . At present , I have not even ... Lithuania was groaning under oppression , and they thought it necessary to inquire if she wished for relief . The 18th ...
... Lithuanians rise of themselves , " said he , " and " then I shall not abandon them . At present , I have not even ... Lithuania was groaning under oppression , and they thought it necessary to inquire if she wished for relief . The 18th ...
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... Lithuanians resident in Warsaw had repeatedly solicited him to send troops to insurrectionize their province , or at least to allow them to organise a legion from amongst themselves , to which request he had always given the ...
... Lithuanians resident in Warsaw had repeatedly solicited him to send troops to insurrectionize their province , or at least to allow them to organise a legion from amongst themselves , to which request he had always given the ...
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... Lithuania , where he was proprietor of vast estates . But a still more weighty reason with the Diet was the conviction ... Lithuanians and Vol- hynians then in Warsaw , that their countries might be admitted to share the struggle for the ...
... Lithuania , where he was proprietor of vast estates . But a still more weighty reason with the Diet was the conviction ... Lithuanians and Vol- hynians then in Warsaw , that their countries might be admitted to share the struggle for the ...
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Page 110 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 235 - Poland for ever" reached the walls of Warsaw to cheer the hearts of its anxious inhabitants. So terrible was the fire of that day, that in the Polish army there was not a single general or staff officer who had not his horse killed or wounded under him; two thirds of the officers, and, perhaps, of the soldiers, had their clothes pierced with balls, and more than a tenth part of the army were wounded. Thirty thousand Russians and ten thousand Poles were left on the field of battle; rank upon rank...
Page 265 - Notwithstanding this immense havoc, the population still renewed itself upon that beautiful soil, ' cut up,' as says a Sclavonian poet, ' by the tramp of horses, fertilized by human blood, and white with bones, where sorrow grew abundantly,'— and that population, like the soil, never ceased to be Sclavonian.
Page 393 - Krukowiecki écrivit au tsar la lettre suivante : « Sire, chargé dans ce moment même du pouvoir de parler à Votre Majesté impériale et royale au nom de la nation polonaise , je m'adresse, par son excellence mpnseigneur le comte Paskevitsch d'Erivan , à votre cœur paternel.
Page 21 - And me, too," he exclaimed, in an oratorical movement which electrified the Assembly, " and me, too, they would, some days since, have borne in triumph, and now they cry through the streets — ' The great conspiracy of Count Mirabeau.' I needed not this lesson to know that there is but a step from the Capitol to the Tarpeian rock.
Page 143 - Je recommande de même tous les établissements, propriétés et individus à la protection de la nation polonaise, et les mets sous la sauvegarde de la foi la plus sacrée.
Page 11 - Europe should result from the union of Poland with the Russian empire, already so powerful — a danger which would not be imaginary, if the military force of the two countries should ever be united under the command of an ambitious and warlike monarch.
Page 143 - Je permets aux troupes polonaises, qui sont restees fideles jusqu'au dernier moment aupres de moi, de rejoindre les leurs. Je me mets en marche avec les troupes imperiales...
Page 11 - Warsaw, can^have left no doubt in the mind of the allied powers, that the re-establishment of Poland as an independent State, with a national administration of its own, would have fully accomplished the wishes of his Imperial Majesty ; and that he would even have been willing to make the greatest sacrifice to promote the restoration of that ancient and beneficial arrangement.
Page 194 - We have been influenced by no hatred against Russia, whose race and our own have a common origin. There was a time when we consoled ourselves for the loss of our independence in the reflection, that though an union under the same sceptre might be injurious to our particular interest, it would be the means of extending to a population of forty millions, the enjoyment of free institutions.