Crossword-Solution: ERZGEBIRGE 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

This Giant-Mountain Range,--which is a kind of continuation of the Saxon-Bohemian "Metal Mountains (ERZGEBIRGE)" and of the straggling Lausitz Mountains, to westward of these,--shapes itself like a bill-hook (or elliptically, as was said): handle and hook together may be some 200 miles in length.

And then the Saxons (21,000 strong, a fine little Army, all that Saxony has) are, at the same time, come across the Metal Mountains (ERZGEBIRGE), in quest of those Bohemian clippings, of that Kingdom of Moravia: and march from the westward upon Prag,--Rutowsky leading them.

Vigorous promises of support came from the Saxon Erzgebirge, as well as announcements that armed contingents were forthcoming.

Here I beheld some thousand men from the Erzgebirge, mostly miners, well armed and organised, who had rallied to the defence of Dresden.

This resolution proposed an armed retreat to the Erzgebirge, where it would be possible to concentrate the reinforcements pouring in from all sides, especially from Thuringia, in such strength, that the advantageous position could be used to inaugurate a German civil war that would sound no hesitating note at its outset.