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  • December, at the close of a ten hours 'march, these Prussians came in sight of Piklupenen, and the Russian brigade of Laskow; without stopping to take breath, they charged, threw it into disorder, and cut off two of its battalions; next day they retook Tilsit from the Russian commander

    History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 Philippe-Paul S��gur 1826

  • Why did Truman agree to meet one-on-one with MacArthur again, Tilsit?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Galston on McChrystal 2009

  • As a child Johannes Bobrowski spent his time on both sides of the River Memel—in his home city of Tilsit in East Prussia and at his grandfather's farm in Lithuania.

    Johannes Bobrowski greenintegerblog 2008

  • • Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern was born in 1892 in Kuckerneese, near Tilsit, Lithuania.

    Dr. Eliot Gnass von Sonnenstern tellurian 2008

  • • Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern was born in 1892 in Kuckerneese, near Tilsit, Lithuania.

    Archive 2008-04-01 tellurian 2008

  • Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, at Tilsit he taught

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure he took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers, at Tilsit, at Paris and at

    Representative Men 2006

  • Though I had issued a new edition of my Atlas, I was still hard pressed for money to live among ministers and kings, the crowd of German princes who filled the Tuileries since Tilsit.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The emperor has told me that, along with the victories of Wagram and Tilsit, the marriage was one of the best times of his life.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The emperor has told me that, along with the victories of Wagram and Tilsit, the marriage was one of the best times of his life.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

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