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They, on the other hand, have a very real interest in conquest: Poland, Germany, anything goes for them. Just seeing the sun six months of the year is a new pleasure for
them. It is they that should be stopped, not me. These Germans with all their philosophy don’t understand a thing.’12
The Russians kept out of musketshot and merely shelled them, but in the words of General Roguet, ‘they killed
without vanquishing … for three hours these troops received death without making the slightest move to avoid it and without being able to return it’.33
‘The strength of his intellect, and the military virtues of his army, which not even its calamities could quite subdue, were destined here to show themselves once more in their full lustre,’
The whole of East Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw were now wide open to the cossacks, and thousands more stragglers were taken or killed.
