Frederick the Great. A Military Life
180 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Whilst they [the Austrians] expected to have been attacked in the centre, the extremities of th ...
181 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 to move against Saltykov, or bring support to Henry in Saxony, or to Fouqu6, whom he had left b ...
182 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 nothing of the quality of the Russian army, and precious little more of his own, 'but he was co ...
183 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Oder. He crossed at Frankfurt on 5 August and joined Saltykov, so forming a Russo-Austrian army ...
184 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Fliess. These wetlands could be traversed only by two narrow cause- ways, and Frederick decided ...
185 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 were strongest. Second, it appears that Frederick only now discovered that the frontage availab ...
186 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 forward, and four of the new 'Austrian' 12-pounders were dragged through the sandy soil to the ...
187 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 For most of the afternoon the Prussian cavalry arrived on the scene in small and badly co-ordin ...
188 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 All the time the Russian guns rained down canister impartially on the struggling mass. The heat ...
189 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Cossacks and Tartars. Frederick himself was in safety on the left bank in the Dammhaus at Reitw ...
190 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 What had gone wrong? One of the officers talked with Catt about their master: 'He was doomed by ...
191 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 all, Daun was marching north with the 25,000 men of the main Austrian army. He reached Triebel ...
192 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 superior forces of the Russians on the heights of Baunau. This bold move saved the fortress of ...
193 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 prise of Daun against his flanks and rear. Now that operations on the Oder were at an end, Lieu ...
194 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 eventuality, but with perhaps affected unconcern Frederick sat down on the afternoon of that sa ...
195 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 king could not bring himself to believe that the corps was in serious danger, but as a precauti ...
196 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the well-informed staff officer Gaudi suggests that Frederick be- lieved that he had a complet ...
197 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 though to the king's surprise he found the energy to marry the vicious seventeen-year-old Count ...
198 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the little corps was overwhelmed by the Austrians in its scattered hill-top positions south and ...
199 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 chose instead to bombard the place with a train of ten 12-pounder cannon and four 50-pounder mo ...
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