Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1910 — Partition of Poland. [ARTICLE]

Partition of Poland.

The partition of Poland is generally understood to have originated with Frederick the Great of Prussia, and he and Catherine of Russia and Maria Theresa of Austria-Hungary entered ,: o. Jt. The Poles were so weakened that they could make' no effective resistance, so the royal robbers each seized certain provinces in 1772. In 1792 another partition was made by Russia and Prussia only, and in 1795 Poland was destroyed altogether as an independent nation, and its remaining territory was divided'among its three neighbors.—Exchange.