Soon, however, the imperial army, while incautiously passing through a defile, was assailed by a strong force of the Turks, and compelled to retreat, having lost three thousand men.Petersburg for having so density properties water needlessly surrendered the most important fortress on the Turkish frontier.It appeared that legitimate heirs was the phrase.Let hostilities cease, therefore, on the density properties water receipt of this.Seckendorf was a Protestant.The imperial troops pressed on until density properties water they arrived within a few miles of the fortress.A breach was ere long made in one of the bastions an assault was hourly expected which the garrison was in no condition to repel.The peasants, in the neighborhood of density properties water the metropolis, were rising in insurrection, ravaging the fields in search of game while rumors were industriously circulated that the government was dissolved, that the succession was disputed, and that the Duke of Bavaria was on the march, with an army, to claim the crown.Anguish of the King.The French ambassador, Villeneuve, density properties water now arrived.CHAPTER XXVI.The main plan of the campaign was for the Russians, who were already on the shores of the Black sea, to press on to the mouth density properties water of the Danube, and then to march up the stream.Neither money, arms nor men were sent to her.