Show L I POLANDS SAD HISTORY When and why was Poland conquer conquered ed asks a correspondent and what power or powers took the most active I part in the conquerIng Foreign powers and potentates fo to fomented fomented I discord among the Poles them themselves themselves selves seles which led to opportunities and excuses for Intervention which those i powers coveted One faction was con controlled controlled on I I trolled by outside Influences altogether and permitted its Internal and external policIes to be shaped by the real ene cue enemies enemies i mies mica of the th Polish people The other side was composed of Polish patriots subject to foreign ridicule which was reechoed by the party which main maln maintained an by virtue of ot for foreign foreign eign financial and political support I When the dissension was at its height j jan an announcement was made by the i powers that the nation was In a state I of anarchy and the people therefore incapable of at Intervention Intervention i tion was waa proposed and Poland fell an easy emsy victim to her powerful neigh neighbors I bors hors At the zenith of Polish glory the do domain I main extended from the Baltic to the Black sea but long before the first partition treaty treat portions of the coun country country try had been boen annexed by Turkey Tu key Rus Bus Russia Bussin sin sia Prussia and Austria and the re remainder remainder remainder was divided among the three great robber states The first partition treaty was between Russia and Prime Prussia Prussia sia sin dated Feb 17 11 1772 the second was between Russia Prussia and Austria Aug 5 Ii 1 of the same year ear By these two treaties a great gr at portion of Poland was 38 absorbed by the three states and a third treaty in 1795 1793 completed the die dis dismemberment of Poland The partition of Poland when completed gave Rus Rue Russia Russia sia cia square miles of territory with witha a population of Prussia square miles and a population of and Austria square miles and population t |