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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 12: Another Step
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He has found out now that he greatly undervalued them, and has owned as much to Keith.
"I am sorry to say the marshal is not well.

He suffers a good deal, and I fancy that, after this campaign is over, he will ask to be relieved from active duty in the field, and will take the command of the army covering Dresden.

He has led a hard life, you see, and has done as much as three ordinary men.
"Still, we shall see how he is next spring.

It would almost break his heart to have to give up before this war is over." "It is difficult to say when that will be, Lindsay.

Here we are, getting towards the third year, and the war is not one whit nearer to the end than it was when we left Berlin.


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