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Prince [[Hohenlohe]] asked Laurence to continue on to Halle on the Saale River, about 40-45 miles northeast of Sommerda. The next day, however, before they could get underway, a courier delivered the news that the French had taken Halle. Instead, Temeraire took the King and Queen to Berlin, to reach their children before the French should arrive there. Hohenhole did not believe Berlin could be held, but voiced some plans concerning defending the line of the Oder River east of Berlin. | Prince [[Hohenlohe]] asked Laurence to continue on to Halle on the Saale River, about 40-45 miles northeast of Sommerda. The next day, however, before they could get underway, a courier delivered the news that the French had taken Halle. Instead, Temeraire took the King and Queen to Berlin, to reach their children before the French should arrive there. Hohenhole did not believe Berlin could be held, but voiced some plans concerning defending the line of the Oder River east of Berlin. | ||
− | From Berlin, the royal children were sent away to | + | From Berlin, the royal children were sent away to Konigsberg, deep in East Prussia. Napoleon's armies had crossed the Elbe and could already be seen approaching Berlin when the King and Queen left, again aboard Temeraire. After spending a night at a fortress on the Oder River, they headed towards Posen (in Polish, Poznan), locating the Prussian army some 20 miles short of that city. (It was during this flight that Temeraire encountered a small group of feral dragons and noticed that the language they spoke resembled the [[Durzagh]] language spoken in the Pamirs.) |
From this point Temeraire and Laurence continued eastward with the army, under the command of General Lestocq, first on to Posen and then towards Warsaw, where they were to rendezvous with the Russian army. The going was slow, at the infantry's pace, and the weather was wet and muddy. It was almost impossible to purchase any food, at any price; the local Poles had no reason to assist the Prussians who had finshed dismembering Poland a decade before. Posen was humming with the news that Colonel Ingersleben had meekly handed over the fortress of Stettin (Szczecin), a Baltic seaport at the mouth of the Oder. | From this point Temeraire and Laurence continued eastward with the army, under the command of General Lestocq, first on to Posen and then towards Warsaw, where they were to rendezvous with the Russian army. The going was slow, at the infantry's pace, and the weather was wet and muddy. It was almost impossible to purchase any food, at any price; the local Poles had no reason to assist the Prussians who had finshed dismembering Poland a decade before. Posen was humming with the news that Colonel Ingersleben had meekly handed over the fortress of Stettin (Szczecin), a Baltic seaport at the mouth of the Oder. |