Crossword-Solution: DESNA 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Lewenhaupt fought bravely for three days, and succeeded in cutting his way through the enemy, with about four thousand of his men, to where Charles awaited him near the river Desna; but upwards of eight thousand Swedes fell in these battles; Lewenhaupt's cannon and ammunition were abandoned; and the whole of his important convoy of provisions, on which Charles and his half-starved troops were relying, fell into the enemy's hands.

Thus it is said that when God was allotting their shares to the rivers, the Desna did not come in time, and so failed to obtain precedence over the Dnieper.

The Desna set off at full speed, but in spite of all her attempts, the Dnieper always kept ahead of her until he fell into the sea, where the Desna was obliged to join him.[267] About the Volga and its affluent, the Vazuza, the following story is told:-- VAZUZA AND VOLGA.[268] Volga and Vazuza had a long dispute as to which was the wiser, the stronger, and the more worthy of high respect.

The government is drained by the Dnieper, which forms its western boundary for 180 m., and by its tributary the Desna.

DESNA, a river in the Ukraine, which rises in the government of, and about 50 miles east of the town of Smolensk, flows through the governments of Orel and Tshernigov till it joins the Dnieper near Kiev.