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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 12: Another Step
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There was but a confused crowd, which the officers did their best to form into some sort of order, regardless of regiment or battalion.

The Cossacks scoured the fields under the cover of night, plundering the dead and murdering the wounded, flames marking their path.

Four hundred of them were caught at their work by the Prussian hussars, and every one killed.
Frederick sent for his tents, and the army pitched its camp, facing the Russians; but during the night the latter, having got into a sort of order, moved away to the westward and bivouacked on Drewitz Heath, facing the battle ground.
Fermor had some twenty-eight thousand men still with him, while Frederick had eighteen thousand.

The former's loss had been twenty-one thousand, five hundred and twenty-nine killed, wounded, or missing; of whom eight thousand were killed.

That of the Prussians was eleven thousand, three hundred and ninety, of whom three thousand six hundred and eighty were killed.


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