Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — Bridging the Danube. [ARTICLE]

Bridging the Danube.

The Russians seem to have built their bridges and crossed the Danube into the Dobmdsclia very quietly. It was a bolder and more brilliant undertaking in 1828. The Turks had divined the intentions of the enemy, and had intrenched themselves opposite the point of crossing. The Russians had to make a causeway 7,000 paces in length before they could reach the bank, and were under fire while at work. They had a flotilla on the Damibe, and when their causeway was complete they sent a detachment of infantry and Cossacks across the river in boats and landed below the Turkish earthworks. These troops carried the intrenchments by storm, and the Turks abandoned the attempt to dispute the crossing. Napoleon’s passage of the Damibe in the face of the Austrians before the battle of Wagram was still more brilliant. He concealed the materials for a floating bridge in the woods and brushwood; he sent across at 9p. m. two battalions of. infantry, who held their ground till'the bridge was completed; he then threw another corps across the river, and by daylight there were 70,000 soldiers on the other side.