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Updated: April 30, 2025
In April 1813 Jahn led me and other Berlin students to meet my future comrades in arms, Lützow's "Black Troop;" we went from Berlin to Dresden, and thence for the most part to Leipzig.
The protests of the allies received no response except that Lützow's men might be exchanged as if they had been captured in fair fight. Finally, Napoleon refused to hear the statement of Nisas in his own justification, reproached him for casting a slur on the conduct of French troops, and deprived him of his command.
I enlist in the Legion of Vengeance, and become one of Major von Lutzow's volunteer riflemen. It will, therefore, be less troublesome to suit me." "But that dress is not near as showy as the other," said the tailor, morosely. "An entirely black uniform with red trimmings on the sleeves looks sad, and cruel." "And that is as it ought to be, my dear sir.
He cannot join the 'Legion of Venegance; he cannot be one of Lutzow's riflemen!" "No," said Leonora, vehemently and almost triumphantly, "HE cannot be one of Lutzow's riflemen!" "Leonora!" cried her father, in a warning tone, "Leonora, what are you saying?" She started and dropped her arm. "It is true," she muttered to herself, "we should not betray our thoughts; God alone must know them."
Spies may be watching us, and it means death to me if I am seen helping you. 'Death! I whispered. 'From whom? 'From the Tugendbund. From Lutzow's night-riders. You Frenchmen are living on a powder magazine, and the match has been struck that will fire it. 'But this is all strange to me, said I, still fumbling at the leathers of my horse. 'What is this Tugendbund?
While returning to Prague Von Weber stopped for a while at the castle Grafen-Tonna, where he composed some of Korner's poems, among them "Lutzow's wilde Jagd" and the "Schwertlied." These songs were soon in everybody's mouth and acted like sparks flung into the powder-magazine of national feeling.
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