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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...the gallop for charging: --Eugen, looking round, finds his men all gone, and has to gallop the other way; gets wounded to boot. Puttkammer, with Hussars, then tried it; Puttkammer was shot dead, and his Hussars too could do nothing. Back, slowly back, go the Prussians generally, no 12th Aug. 1759. thing now succeeds with them. Back to the Kuhgrund again; fairly over the steep brow there; the Russians serrying their ranks atop, rearranging their many guns. There, once more, rose frightful struggle; desperate attempt by the foredone Prussians to retake that Height. Lasted fifteen minutes, line to line not fifty yards asunder; such musketry, --our last cartridges withal. Ardent Prussian parties trying to storm up; few ever getting to the top, none ever standing there alive one minute. This was the death-agony of the Battle. Loudon, waiting behind the Spitzberg, dashes forward now, towards the Kuhgrund and our Left Flank. At sight of which a universal feeling shivers through the Prussian heart, Hope ended, then! --and their solid ranks rustle everywhere; and melt into one wild deluge, ebbing from the place as fast as it can. It is towards six o'clock; the sweltering Sun is now fallen low and veiled; gray evening sinking over those wastes. iVy a-t-il done pas un bougre de boulet qui K'puisse rn'atteindre (Is there not one b--of a ball that can reach me, then)? exclaimed Friedrich, in his despair. Such a day he had never thought to see. The pillar of the State, the Prussian Army itself, gone to chaos in this manner. Friedrich still passionately struggles, exhorts, commands, entreats even with tears, Children, don't forsake me, in this pinch (Kinder, ve.r'lasset heute mich, euren Konig, euren Vater, m'cAi)!&...

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