She devoted herself to this task with great assiduity and success, and as soon as she had made such progress as to be able to read in that language, she spent all her leisure time in perusing the German books which she found in the minister's library.It was at that time an important military station, as it contained great arsenals where large stores of food and of ammunition were laid clustering engin zurich up for the use of Peter's army.He ordered the officers of these troops to watch Mazeppa's movements closely, and to be ready to act against him at a moment's notice, should occasion require.Some of them were clustering engin zurich really so, and others pretended to be so for fear of displeasing him.But the boats were, after all, so few that the operation proceeded slowly, and the Russians, who had been pressing on with all speed, arrived at the banks of the river in time to interrupt it before all the troops had passed, and thus about five hundred men fell into their hands.A portion of the Cossacks, those with whom Mazeppa had come to an understanding beforehand, were disposed to go with him, but the rest were filled clustering engin zurich with vexation and rage.One thing is certain, and that is, that his young bride never saw him again.Her parents were in clustering engin zurich very humble circumstances, and they both died when she was a little child, leaving her in a very destitute and friendless condition.He came up to it at a certain point, as if he was intending to cross there.The wars clustering engin zurich between Russia and Sweden occupied principally the early part of the reign through a period of many years.He, however, as it seems, did not always entirely lay aside his imperial character while in camp, for in this instance, while the men were formed in array, and before the battle commenced, he rode to and fro along their lines, encouraging the men, and promising, as their sovereign, to bestow rewards upon them in proportion to the valor which they should severally display in the coming combat.Pultowa is a town situated in clustering engin zurich the heart of the Russian territories three or four hundred miles north of the Black Sea.Still, he felt that he was not wholly destitute of means and resources for carrying on the struggle in case Peter should refuse to make peace.The place was strongly fortified, and it was defended by a garrison but the king thought that he should be able clustering engin zurich to take it, and he accordingly advanced to the walls, invested the place closely on every side, and commenced the siege.