Roumania - Caught off guard by a spirited Austrian counter-attack, the First Army counter-attacked the counter-attackers
, who broke ranks and were routed after repeated charges by Cossacks. On the Danube delta, General Kutusov and his battered army have moved back from the carnage at Constanta. The Tsar in St. Petersburg deplored Hapsburg actions in this city - or rather, former city - saying 'The Russian army is your enemy, not the innocents of Constanta. Your wholesale massacre of them and levelling of the city will be remembered for all time in the annals of cruelty and perfidy.'
The massacre further reinforces Russian claims that only the Tsar is fit to rule the Orthodox population of the Balkans, and Russian diplomats have asked all civilized leaders in Europe to join them in condemnation of this recent inhumanity, and ask how Britain and Prussia can fight on the behalf of a power capable of such atrocities.
East Poland - A large Prussian infantry force on the road from Warsaw to Brest-Litovsk has been completely annihilated by a Russian attack launched from the nearby fortress city. Russian regiments participating sustained virtually no casualties, calling their battle with the supposedly formidable Prussian army 'a walkover.'
The Baltic - The naval war in this cold sea continued this month, the Russians sinking a Prussian brig in retaliation for the loss of the frigate
Aleksander a few weeks earlier.
In compliance with Swedish requests, the ships guarding the mouth of the Gulf of Finland - only a precaution against British and Prussian scouting parties - have been removed. We have no wish for war with our northern neighbour.
Finally, the grateful Sultan has showered his benevolent friend the Tsar with further gifts of territory for undertaking his crusade against the clutching Hapsburgs, ceding the town of Batum on the Black Sea to the Empire.
