Frederick the Great. A Military Life
220 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 From 15 May to 6 July Frederick held his army on the long, low and open ridge of Kunzendorf, ju ...
221 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 been to hold the allies apart, and for the first time in this war the Austrians and Russians ha ...
222 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 southernmost sector (Works XVII-V) projected in a naturally vulner- able salient, deriving litt ...
223 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Beck, and it was afforded some very necessary protection by the swampy meadows of the Freyburge ...
224 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 a joint attack that was to take place on 1 September. On the north- eastern or 'Peterwitz' sect ...
225 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 regulars, emplaced on the hill slopes at the southern edge of the Silesian plain. Frederick had ...
226 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 maintain a foothold in the electorate for the winter. Beset by so many misfortunes close to hom ...
227 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 just consider - to die bit by bit or to die all together, don't they amount to the same thing?' ...
228 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 No less reprehensible, to the moralists' way of thinking, was the debasement of the currency wh ...
229 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 180,000 men in the course of the war, and that scarcely one hundred men per regiment remained o ...
230 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the homeless East Prussians, the little Catholic fusiliers from Upper Silesia, and the brigand- ...
231 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 questioned the justice of the war and believed that Frederick was conducting it in an irrespons ...
232 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 alteration of character that was noted by his admirer the British envoy Mitchell: I am veiy sor ...
233 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 panies for the next campaign. Mollendorff wrote to a friend: The soldier does not have the wher ...
234 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the Russians made an actual treaty of alliance. The Prussians prom- ised to support Peter's cla ...
235 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the main force on an arc to the north and east of Schweidnitz, with the right resting on the Zo ...
236 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Once again Frederick looked to Wied's corps as the key with which to unlock the Austrian positi ...
237 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 The Prussians and Austrians had confronted one another on this same ground on many occasions in ...
238 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 had been whittled down to less than 30,000 men, and he conceded both the overall and the local ...
239 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the leading battalions of Brentano. Wied sent two battalions in support, and Bernburg was now a ...
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