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NOTES

ON

MY CAPTIVITY IN RUSSIA,

IN THE YEARS 1794, 1795, AND 1796.


CHAPTER I.

THE BATTLE OF MACIEIOWICE.

Situation of Poland after the raising of the siege of Warsaw by the Russians and Prussians.—Fersen crosses the Vistula.—Kosciuszko resolves to give him battle.—He requests Niemcewicz to accompany him.—The battle of Maciejowice.—Kosciuszko and Niemcewicz are wounded and taken prisoners.—The triumph of the Russians, their manner of living, ideas and plunder.

The twenty six months of my imprisonment in Russia, and the various evils I suffered, have left a deep impression on my mind. I am here to trace the recollection of them. A history of

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