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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 11: Leuthen
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Their loss was ten thousand left on the field, of whom three thousand were killed.

Twelve thousand were taken prisoners, and one hundred and sixteen cannon captured.
To this loss must be added that of seventeen thousand prisoners taken when Breslau surrendered, twelve days later, together with a vast store of cannon and ammunition, including everything taken so shortly before from Bevern.

Liegnitz surrendered, and the whole of Silesia, with the exception only of Schweidnitz, was again wrested from the Austrians.

Thus in killed, wounded, and prisoners the loss of the Austrians amounted to as much as the total force of the Prussians.
The latter lost in killed eleven hundred and forty one, and in wounded about five thousand.

Prince Maurice, upon whose division the brunt of the battle had fallen, was promoted to the rank of field marshal.
Fergus Drummond had been with the king throughout that terrible day.


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