Frederick the Great. A Military Life
120 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 our anxiety.. • the cannon shot were ploughing the earth around him which kept his horse in res ...
121 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 quicksand. His horse sank up to the pistol holsters, and Seydlitz had to be hauled out with a r ...
122 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 numerous and powerful, have great resources, whilst the king of Prussia's superiority depends e ...
123 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Kolin, then descended in the path of his hussars. He had to scamper back at some speed when pow ...
124 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 constructing a new angle looking north over the Kaiser-Strasse. To Frederick, the strength of a ...
125 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 at the ZlaU Slunce. From here the ridge appeared not so much to run parallel to the Kaiser-Stra ...
126 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 finer day, or a more splendid sight' (Ligne, 1795-1811, XIV, 19). Already Frederick's scheme ha ...
127 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 last elements of his flank march in favour of a frontal attack? Hoen concludes (1911, 380-6) th ...
128 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 person, at the head of the Normann Dragoons (D 1; see Map 10, p. 352): His courage and zeal for ...
129 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Serbelloni withdrew to the side, but the infantry of Starhemberg were standing firm behind and ...
130 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 afternoon of 19 June he reached his old headquarters at Klein-Michele outside Prague. He was vi ...
131 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Manstein. The historian von Hoen attributes the change of plan directly to the king himself. (e ...
132 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 In these idyllic surroundings Frederick spent some of the most unhappy days of his life. With t ...
133 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 These sentiments reach out to us over the gap of more than two centuries, yet, through his grat ...
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 134 U demoralised by the defeat at Kolin and still suffering from the privations of the campaign (1 ...
135 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 homeland from the west. His sole friends in Europe, a force of Hanoverian and other Protestant ...
136 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 conceived his passion for tobacco, women, and feats of daredevil horsemanship like riding throu ...
137 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 smoker' (Kalkreuth, 1840, III, 177). At Dresden on 30 August Frederick met the army which had r ...
138 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 trians: 'Everything is going splendidly here, but I am veiy worried by a rumour which has come ...
139 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 only to abandon it by the next day upon the news of Moritz's approach. The Austrian raiding for ...
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