"Pillau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blockade, convey ammunition into the city, and destroy the pontoon-bridge of the French; but the sloop stranded, and had to surrender. The Russians, too, had promised assistance to the city. Seven thousand embarked at Pillau, and landed at Weichselmuende; but there they were attacked by Oudinot, who captured nearly one-half, ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... Mustapha, "better is hard fare than no food—if we cannot indulge in the pillau, we must content ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat
... to send into the field, and our cities and fortresses are occupied by French garrisons. An army of four hundred and eighty thousand infantry and seventy thousand cavalry cover Prussia like a cloud of locusts; Berlin, Spandau, Konigsberg, and Pillau, have received French garrisons; only Upper Silesia, Colberg, and Graudenz, have remained exempt from them. The whole country, as though we were at war, is exposed to the robberies, extortions, and cruelties in which an enemy indulges: this time, however, he comes in the garb of a friend, ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... Austrians were to invade Volhynia. Already wherever the troops passed there was raised a chorus of complaints from the pillaged and ill-treated populations, and from the King of Prussia, who had seen Spandau and Pillau occupied by the French troops, on pretext of depositing the war-material there. King Frederick William had set out for Dresden, to present his claims personally to ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt |
