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Russia and Prussia become European Powers 385 later declared that they could not put up any longer with such a dangerous neighbor and proceeded to a second partition. Prussia cut deep into Poland, added a million and a half of Poles to her subjects, and acquired the towns of Thorn, Danzig, and Posen. THE PARTITION OF POLAND Russia's gains were three millions of people, who at least belonged to her own race. Two years later the Polish king was compelled to abdicate, and the remnants of the dismembered kingdom were divided, after much bitter contention, among Austria, Russia, and Prussia. In the three partitions which, until the coming of the World War in our own day, blotted out the kingdom of Poland from the map of Europe, Russia received nearly twice the com- bined shares of Austria and Prussia.