arms. In alliance with Russia, finally also assisted by Austria and
Sweden, her

troops were engaged in nine bloody battles with the French between
April 5 and October 18, the enthusiasm of the people and the dogged
intrepidity of Bluecher being at length rewarded by the decisive
victory at Leipsic. The immediate result of this victory for Prussia
was the recovery of the territory between the Elbe and the Rhine ceded
to France by the preceding king. At the congress of Vienna there were
assigned
to her in addition all that she had possessed before the Treaty of
Tilsit, half of Saxony, and an increase of the former possessions on
the Rhine. Some further
acquisitions and cessions were made at the second Treaty of Paris,
November 2, 1815, since which time the boundaries of Prussia have been
little changed. This brief
sketch of the so-called War of Liberation could not have been avoided
in an attempt to describe the present political condition

of Prussia. The enthusiasm with which the semi-cente