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Updated: August 28, 2024
From the town of Mlawa, just within Russian Poland, beyond the frontier, runs, coming up from Warsaw, a railway to Soldau, just upon the Prussian side of the frontier. At Soldau three railways converge one from the east, one going west to Niedenberg and the junction of Ortelsberg, a third coming in from the north-east and Eylau.
From Eylau, through Osterode, the main international line runs through Allenstein, and so on eastward, while a branch from this goes through Passenheim to the junction at Ortelsberg. Here, then, you have a quadrilateral of railways about fifty miles in length.
It was clearly evident by that evening, the 29th of August, that Samsonoff must retreat; but his opportunities for such a retreat were already difficult. All he had behind him was the worst piece in the whole country the triangle Passenheim-Ortelsberg-Niedenberg and his main avenue of escape was a defile between the lake which the railway at Ortelsberg uses.
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