schwiednitz

Updated: June 5, 2025

"Alas! is it not true?" writes Carlyle in his Heroes, "that many men in the van do always, like Russian soldiers, march into the ditch of Schwiednitz, and fill it up with their dead bodies, that the rear may pass over them dry-shod, and gain the honour?

- The Covenants And The Covenanters: Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation