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At the head of 600 well-mounted hussars and between 1500 and 2000 infantry badly armed, he took possession of the little fort of Domitz, in Mecklenburg, on the 15th of May, from whence he despatched parties who levied contributions on both banks of the Elbe. Schill inspired terror wherever he went. On the 19th of May a detachment of 30 men belonging to Schill's corps entered Wismar.
Did not those women excite Schill against us while we were at peace with Prussia; but stay a little; we shall see. 'Schill's enterprise; Sire, bears no resemblance to this attempt. You know how the Emperor likes every one to yield to his opinion when he has adopted one which he does not choose to give up; so he said, rather changing his tone of good-humoured familiarity, 'All you say is in vain, Monsieur le General: I am not liked either at Berlin or Weimar. There is no doubt of that, Sire; but because you are not liked in these two Courts, is it to be inferred that they would assassinate you? 'I know the fury of those women; but patience.
The troops of Saxony checked the Duke of Brunswick's progress, and Schill's heroic band were at last shut up in Stralsund, where their leader perished in a sortie; thus, and only thus, escaping the vengeance of Napoleon. Among the mountains of the Tyrol, the native zeal of a few hardy peasants achieved more than all the mighty population of Germany.
At the head of 600 well-mounted hussars and between 1500 and 2000 infantry badly armed, he took possession of the little fort of Domitz, in Mecklenburg, on the 15th of May, from whence he despatched parties who levied contributions on both banks of the Elbe. Schill inspired terror wherever he went. On the 19th of May a detachment of 30 men belonging to Schill's corps entered Wismar.
Did not those women excite Schill against us while we were at peace with Prussia; but stay a little; we shall see. 'Schill's enterprise; Sire, bears no resemblance to this attempt. You know how the Emperor likes every one to yield to his opinion when he has adopted one which he does not choose to give up; so he said, rather changing his tone of good-humoured familiarity, 'All you say is in vain, Monsieur le General: I am not liked either at Berlin or Weimar. There is no doubt of that, Sire; but because you are not liked in these two Courts, is it to be inferred that they would assassinate you? 'I know the fury of those women; but patience.
Did not those women excite Schill against us while we were at peace with Prussia; but stay a little; we shall see. 'Schill's enterprise; Sire, bears no resemblance to this attempt. You know how the Emperor likes every one to yield to his opinion when he has adopted one which he does not choose to give up; so he said, rather changing his tone of good-humoured familiarity, 'All you say is in vain, Monsieur le General: I am not liked either at Berlin or Weimar. There is no doubt of that, Sire; but because you are not liked in these two Courts, is it to be inferred that they would assassinate you? 'I know the fury of those women; but patience.
At the head of 600 well-mounted hussars and between 1500 and 2000 infantry badly armed, he took possession of the little fort of Domitz, in Mecklenburg, on the 15th of May, from whence he despatched parties who levied contributions on both banks of the Elbe. Schill inspired terror wherever he went. On the 19th of May a detachment of 30 men belonging to Schill's corps entered Wismar.
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