From President to Prison

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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski. From President to Prison

From President to Prison

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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Lewis Stanton Palen

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In the meantime another disastrous land engagement ​had taken place just opposite Wiju on the Yalu River, along the course of which Bezobrazoff and his Imperial associates had dreamed of planting a new outpost of Russian empire in the Far East. Following this unhappy battle at Wiju and Chiu Lien Ch'eng, the Russian arms sustained one disaster after the other.

The unfortunately well-proven Russian negligence and lack of conscientious care in details was patently manifest during these initial operations of the war. Since 1900 military topographers had been working on a map of Manchuria, but, not knowing the language of the country, they fell into unpardonable errors, which later brought heavy nemesis in lives and treasure.

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