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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the government atWarsaw. He marched out of the city, with 13,000 men, to oppose 17,000Russians and Prussians, attacked them at Szezekocini, June 6, but was de-feated after an obstinate conflict. He retreated to his entrenched campbefore Warsaw. The Prussians took Cracow. Disturbances broke out, inconseqence, in Warsaw, June 28. The people murdered a part of theprisoners, and hung some Poles who were connected with the Russians.But Kosciusko punished the guilty, and restored order. The king of Prus-sia now formed a junction with the Russians, and besieged Warsaw with60,000 men. Kosciusko, however, kept up the courage of his countrymen.After two months of bloody fighting, he repelled, with 10,000 men, a gen-eral assault. All Great Poland now rose, under Dombrowski, against thePrussians. This circumstance, together with the loss of a body of artillery,compelled the king of Prussia to raise the siege of Warsaw. Thus thisbold general, with an army of 20,000 regular troops and 40,000 armed
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AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. peasants, maintained himself against four hostile armies, amounting togetherto 150,000 men. His great power consisted in the confidence which his fellow-citizensreposed in him. The nephew of the king, once his general, served underhim. Kosciusko had unlimited power in the republic, but he displayedthe integrity of Washington, and the activity of Csesar. He attended toprocuring supplies, superintended the raising and payment of money, andprevented plundering and fraud, and was equally active in the council andthe field. His days and nights, all his powers, were devoted to his country.He secured the administration of justice, abolished bondage, and finally re-stored to the nation, May 29, in the supreme national council which he es-tablished, the great power which had been delegated to him. Catharineat length decided the contest by an overwhelming superiority of numbers.Suwaroff defeated the Poles under Sierakowski at Brzec, in Volhynia, Sep-tember 18th and 19th.

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