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We have come to a moment in our story at which the events which / modified it most importantly occurred, not in Europe at all, but in / that new West which was still British. Before considering them, / however, it will be well to gather up some loose ends of the European / story.
There had been some rearrangement of territory, in the year 1767, / between Denmark and Sweden, by which most of what we may see on / modern maps marked as Schleswig-Holstein was given over to Denmark in / exchange for the Duchy of Oldenburg; but a rearrangement of far more / importance was that which is known as the first partition of Poland / in 1772. It was a mutual arrangement, between the three strong / powers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, to dismember and embody as / parts of themselves such pieces of Polish territory as lay most / neighbourly to their own boundaries.