[Footnote 51: The young Lithuanian, whose name was Szymanski, had passed, on foot, two hundred and eighty miles in eight days, in the vilest habit of a beggar, and even without shoes, through forests, marshes, and fords, to avoid interception, exposed in fact to every kind of privation. He arrived on the 4th of April, at the camp of the generalissimo, at Jendrzeiow, where he was received with great enthusiasm. He was immediately sent to Warsaw, to announce the happy intelligence to the people.] CHAPTER XV. Plan of operation against the two corps of Rosen and Kreutz.--Battle of Iganie.--Reflections on the state of the Polish cause after the victory of Iganie.--Review of the course of the campaign.--Condition of the Russian army.--Discontents in Russia.--Representations of the Senate at St Petersburgh to the Emperor.--Comparative view of the forces of the two armies at the present stage of the conflict. Marshal Diebitsch, as is known to the reader, was forced, by our victories of the 31st of March and the 1st of April, to abandon his plan of passing the Vistula opposite to Kozienice, and to think of nothing farther at present, than of saving the two corps of Rosen and Giesmar, and the guard. He was so far separated from them while between Kock and Ryk, where he then was, that by a prompt diversion on our part, by Lukow, he might have lost those corps, and it was in fear of this, that he hastened to arrive as soon as possible to their succor at Siedlce. Our general in chief thought to anticipate this movement, and to throw himself upon the combined corps of Giesmar and Rosen, before Diebitsch should reach them.[52] [Illustration: _XX. p 220_] [Illustration: _XXI. p. 224_] BATTLE OF IGANIE. [_See Plans_ XX _and_ XXI.] On the 9th of April, the Russian army was nearly in the same position as we have last described them. The main body, under marshal Diebitsch, were in the environs of Kock, and the combined corps of Rosen and Giesmar [_Plan_ XX, (_a_)], were upon the small river Kostrzyn (_b_), at Boimie. Our army also had not changed its position.