Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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emained as captives, havelost both their language and their religion,and only their Mongol features distinguishthem from the surrounding Little Russianpea.santry. By a curious coincidence theRussian forces which were now attackingthe town of Bzhezhany included manyArmenian and Tartar regiments from theCaucasus. Next to the old Armenian road whichapproaches Bzhezhany from the direction ofShybalin, not far from.where the River Zlota(j;)a emergoH from the small Bzhozliany lak(»,Htands the old castle, once an importnritfortroHH and thf) seat of one of the riclu!Htaristocratic families of Poland—the Sioniuw-skiH. The last of that family was a faithfulafJherent of the I^eague which in the (irstquarter oi the eiglitecnth century oppowcd(liarl*»H XH. of Swt)don, the Iurks, and theif\)til (.oHHackH of Maze()a, and JJzhe/.hanyhiicamo the uoene of an iini)ortant battle inthat war. Through the only daughter ofthe l/iHt HieniawHki, the god-child of Peter the 17-2 THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAIi.
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THE TIMES HISTOBY OF THE WAR. 173 Great, Tsar of Russia, August II., King ofPoland and Saxony, and Rakocsy, GrandDuke of Transylvania, the estates of Bzhezhanypassed into the hands of the family of theCzartorjskis, who now for the first time roseto historic importance. But the magnificentold castle was abandoned for a more habitablecountrj house, and a century later, underAustrian rule, like so many of the finest oldGalician castles, was changed partly intoiniUtary barracks and partly into a brewery.Only the old family chapel of the Sieniawskisremained intact. On the western side thetown of Bzhezhany is dominated by theBenedictine ^lonastery founded by one of the.Sieniawskis towards the close of the seven-teenth century. For about 15 miles south of Potutory thebroad, flat, marshy valley of the Zlota Lipaformed the dividing line between the Germanicand the Russian armies. This was compara-tively the least interesting and least eventfulsector of the front on which the forces ofGeneral S

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