Show S 'S DOWNFALL DOV CAME GAME VERY RAPIDLY i I At One Dna I T She Was Vas Second Largest larges tur ean Country Washington I I le Ie le Poland of ot 1715 S was as larger largel until than any other European try with the tbt exception n of if Russia i Today it It has bas no political entity says I the National Geographical society in a aI I I statement ju just t I Issued sued Two centuries ago Its domain i cached from the Baltic to the thian's and stretched ed front east to wi we west t for a distance of ot approximately I miles The first partition of Poland loland came lume in in ht 1772 when Prussia russin and und Austria alarmed In by the progress of Russia In o oi is means of ot main main- mr maintaining u. u i Poland s1 suggested Age as a n the equilibrium of ot Europe that all three powers readjust their territories teri ter- ter i at ut the expense e of Poland says the society's bulletin Poland loland lay lav utterly helpless She lost lot about one of her ber population and md one one fourth fourth of her bel territory The second partition in 1793 reduced Poland Po l'- land hind to third one of her bel original dimensions dimen- dimen dimen dimen- I stuns Blons with a population of or about A third treaty of partition was vas 1716 The of Vien Vien- signed In 17 congress o gress na In 1815 divided Poland between Prussia Austria and Russia with the exception of ot Cracow w which was erected erected erected erect erect- ed Into ii a republic embedded in Galici Galicia i Posen and nd with a 1 population of were left lett to Prussia Austria Aus I. tria remained In pos possession of Galicia with Its Inha inhabitants 1 Lith manic minla and the an Palatinates continued to be Incorporated with nu Rus Rus- sin sla The Tbt remnant nt was constituted as us the so called ailed Congress Kingdom under I Ithe the emperor of Russia as the kin King of it Poland In n the s same une year vear Alexander 1 l grant granted ed d the new kingdom a it constitution 1 which b declared it to be united to Ru Rus Rushia hia sia in the p person of f the czar as us IS a II separate parate political entity Poland retained re- re tamed its flag and nd a it n national arm army armIn In 1830 f following the outbreak c of the French revolution a military military- took place in Wai Warsaw saw This war wai war h last lasted st- st ed pd for ten months and at ants Its conclusion the Congress f Kingdom wa was reduced to the position of If a M Russian province Tilt Thelast The Thelast last remaining remnant of ot Pola Poland rid s separate l' l political politic U existence was wal Cracow Cra Cracow Cra- Cra cow ow and it was wal finally oC occupied by Austria in 1845 1846 The fht last attempt of oft t the hI Pol Poles to achieve e Independence wa was in 1803 It was Ras marked by no no real brittle bittle and the uprising was was soon re- re pi es d. d Th The national history of I Po Poll Po- Po ll closes this att attempt at tit free free- free free- In I HS b ukase of the emperor of i. i the till IO go eminent was tb o ld with thin that thi of Ru RuMi Rusi Rus- Rus i Mi ia ia mid th the n- n ne use e of the PolI Polish h language In III public pi ices and and for pu public pur- pur 1 wn Russian Pol Poland ind contains the first Jill line flue of defense defence of the tbt Russian empire mi n its westi western rn frontier pr The Ibl marshy b low I mils covered co with forests on oti th the theve ve rein banK hank of the tilt Fistula Vistula i tula offer bITer a n l 1 I defense 1 against t an nn army nr-my ad ad- ad- ad lining rocs from the west and they are h li a n l number lIn of fortresses ii u th thit lt river The Tbt I renter tenter of tb these se tatI lat lat- I is V |