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Unfortunately the Poles proceeded shortly to make peace with Soviet Russia, whereupon the whole might of the Red Army was thrown against Wrangel. Outnumbered, he was driven back—back & back upon Sevastapol. There he embarked his "White Knights" upon ships furnished by the Little Entente and withdrew his whole army to Constantinople.
That retreat marked the political and military eclipse of Baron Wrangel. His misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife, her immensely valuable jewels, and his personal fortune which he had converted into cash. These three most valued possessions were lost when the yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor. After that triple misfortune Baron Wrangel gradually became little more than a lanky, itinerant White Hope.