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Lemberg i6l were withdrawn from Alsace and this relieved an equal number of French corps, which moving on in- terior lines might soon be expected in Ile-de-France or Champagne. Once more it was Waterloo re- peated, with the Russians playing the Prussian role and more and more insistently demanding the atten- tion of the very troops relied upon to give the fatal blow to the Allies, hard-pressed now, having nar- rowly escaped disaster, but still unbroken.