Word: russia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When Napoleon was retreating from Russia, some young men were put into service and ordered to cover up the retreat of the Prussian army. For awhile they held the crossing of a road but their position was exposed. It became impossible to hold it and they met death. Napolean afterwards said that the reason these men did not retreat was because they did not know their danger. These young men were determined. It was God for whom they fought, he gave the commands, for him they would...
...President Andrew D. White of Cornell, Yale '53, has been appointed Minister Plenepotentiary to Russia...
...expulsion of the Jews from Russia justifiable...
...first prize in the Clark competion in oratory at Hamilton College has been awarded to Gregory Rosenblum of Nijini Norgorod, Russia, whose subject was "The Jew in Russia...
...recent law in Russia prohibits more than seventy students to gather in any one theatre...