God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 235 leave Warsaw unmolested, taking his troops and his political prisoners with him. Chtopicki refused to p ...
236 KONGRESOWKA reinstated. After three weeks, Czartoryski emerged as the President of a ruling Council. On 18 January, he took ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 237 a social revolution at home. He was hoping against hope for a military success which would force the Ts ...
(^238) KONGRESOWKA fortifications. Forty thousand men, dispersed along a wide horseshoe, were to hold a line against almost twic ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 2-39 As a result of the Rising, attitudes hardened on all sides. In Russia, where noth- ing was known of Po ...
240 KONGRES OWKA * What's all this uproar, pundits of the nations? Why do you threaten Russia with anathema? Is it the riots in ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 241 Among the Poles, the defeat of the Rising caused the greatest single outburst of national feeling, and ...
2.42. KONGRESOWKA Dich wird erziehn dereinst der Zar Zur Sklaverei Doch als ich dich, O Kind, gebar War Polen frei. Sleep, my li ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 243 Oppression, murder, rapine, torture, lust, All cruelty, in each appalling form: Most deadly fruit of bl ...
244 KONGRESOWKA spite of an official amnesty, transported. The rankers were drafted into Russian regiments serving in the Caucas ...
THE CONGRESS KINGDOM 2-45 1831 explicitly condemned the Rising, and praised the Tsar for its suppression. In 1833, an abortive i ...
14. CRACOVIA: The Republic of Cracow (1815-1846) At the end of the Napoleonic Era, the only city of the former Republic of Polan ...
THE REPUBLIC OF CRACOW 247 northern bank of the Vistula. Its population, numbering over 145,000 in 1843 was about 80 per cent Ca ...
248 CRACOVIA Opposition sought to re-establish the Constitution, the revolutionaries planned a new rising. The servile President ...
THE REPUBLIC OF CRACOW 249 enthusiastic but untrained volunteers, was dispersed at the battle of Gdow by the Austrian Colonel Be ...
250 CRACOVIA Through fiery smoke, through brothers' blood and ashes To Thee, O Lord, our fearful prayers ring out In terrible la ...
15. WIOSNA: The Springtime of Other Nations (1848) The year's happenings began in Sicily on 12 January, when the citizens of Pal ...
252 WIOSNA to lose but your chains.' Nationalists demanded the redrawing of the entire map of Europe, and to replace the old dyn ...
THE SPRINGTIME OF OTHER NATIONS 253 Russo-Polish War of 1831, arrived from Paris to organize the insurrectionary forces in Vienn ...
254 WIOSNA Polish disappointments in Prague were reflected in France and Germany. In Paris, the socialist opposition was the onl ...
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