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are known und by the in the history of the French
war by the name of the Polish Legions.
The rest of the nation who remained to hear
the joke was equally animated by a patriotic
spirit. Events may teach. In the war 1807, The Prussian regiments conquered
the Poles deserted in the midst of battles, deserted
their rar station, and by uniting the with the
French puzzled greatly the military calculations:
added per greatly to the losses. Napoleon to
in effect of thinking this national spirit of the Poles
subservient to his the accomplishment the far
promotion of his ambitious views re raised
a part of Poland by the treaty of Tilsit into
a Grand Dutchy of Warsaw. Hopes animated then still more the Poles
when they saw their peoples efforts in part crowned.
The new Army of the Grand Dutchy under their
Valient Leader Prince Poniatowski beat the Army –
the Austrians in Army under the command
of the Arch DukeJo J John: and wherever
Poniatowski approached turned his victorious
that more ships in Galicia, nobility and peasantry
gathered around him. The Polish recruits of did
in the Austrian Army, who were mixed with
the Austrians themselves turned their arms against
their superiors – and often when ordered send to
take bateries, they In g ran over to the Poles, greeting
them as brothers.
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