Frederick the Great. A Military Life
140 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 his comrades had been put there to observe whether the bridge was burning properly, and not to ...
141 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 Soon after daybreak on 5 November the Mayr free battalion found that the allied camp was covere ...
142 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 The allies noticed the departure of the king's army shortly before 15 p.m.:' In less than two ...
143 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 second line, until almost the entire Prussian infantry formed a dog-leg facing approximately so ...
144 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 allies were diminished by more than 10,000 men, most of whom were probably taken prisoner, wher ...
145 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 when Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick set out to assume command of the Hanoverian army. Over the f ...
146 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 political Testament of 1752 delivered into the shaky hands of August Wilhelm, if that proved ne ...
147 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 austere standards of the Prussian service, and there was something about Frederick's weariness, ...
148 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 some encouraging reports that the Austrians might be abandoning their entrenched position at Br ...
149 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 prisoners were taken, and Frederick had the captives led past his marching columns so as to rai ...
150 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 by Frederick's intimate knowledge of the terrain. The king wished to make certain that the move ...
151 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 all our army behind. There's no space to retreat, and the only way to go forward is to beat the ...
152 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 central churchyard, where the thick surrounding wall had four round corner towers. One of the b ...
153 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 paces short of Lissa the party drew a discharge of fifty or sixty musket shots at short range. ...
154 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 December... with the modesty becoming a hero, whose magnanim- ity is not affected with the smil ...
155 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 The events of 1757 were remembered as 'that extraordinary cam- paign, the most fertile in battl ...
156 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 the rest of the war. With his Hanoverians and his other Protestant German troops, Ferdinand lau ...
157 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 muskets and weapons and other equipment to distribute in the army. More important, Frederick ha ...
158 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 must still be located in Bohemia as much as one hundred miles to the west, watching the invasio ...
159 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 The siege itself was going badly. The direction of the approaches had been well chosen, namely ...
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