Frederick the Great. A Military Life
160 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 believe, the intelligence he had of the strength of the Austrian detachments sent against the c ...
161 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 expected to pick up many deserters: 'But they say that he so skilfully interspersed the suspect ...
162 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 He spoke dismissively to Field-Marshal Keith, a veteran of the Rus- sian service, about the mil ...
163 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 aspect made all the greater impression. 'Here and there stood part of a wall, or some remnants ...
164 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 head position. The main army rested on the north bank, and an additional bridge was built to as ...
165 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 untenable. Frederick tried to deal such a blow after the battle (PC 10254), when he was better ...
166 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 fire. The Russian gunners sought to reply, but they were facing slightly uphill and into the su ...
167 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Manteuffel he swung his division half-right out of the intended axis of advance. His regiments ...
168 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the right of the enemy] was so ill-treated that it broke and fled into the wood of Quartschen a ...
169 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the king himself came riding up and said: 'Lads, don't shout victoiy yet - I'll tell you when t ...
170 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 places where the cavaliy had been slaughtering each other, and men and horses were piled up in ...
171 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Frederick now took up quarters in Tamsel, the little place where he had come a quarter of a cen ...
172 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 However, the fine combinations of the 'Oblique Order', as ap- plied at Zorndorf, demanded too m ...
173 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 by threatening his eastern supply lines, which ran from Bohemia by way of Zittau, and from sout ...
174 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Berg, which was swarming with the enemy Croats. Again and again the eyes of the anxious Prussia ...
175 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 south of the churchyard. They were aiming at our camp, and the shot stormed over our heads. Fre ...
176 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 later called, the troops were jammed so tightly that the blood flowed in a veritable river, and ...
177 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the back gate of Hochkirch churchyard at bayonet point. The troops were cut down in the alleywa ...
178 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 'owing to two causes, the veiy great contempt he had of the enemy, and the unwillingness I have ...
179 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 his master by defying every call to surrender, and as a sign of his resolution he cleared the f ...
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