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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 15: Escaped
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If you can get a mounted orderly, well and good; if not, I will lend you one of my men.

Any of my grooms would be delighted to go with you, for all regard you as the saviour of our lives.
"I am afraid, my friend, you will not be able to pay us many more visits.

Your king is a miracle of steadfastness, of energy, and rapidity; but even he cannot perform impossibilities.

Leave out the Russians, and I believe that he would be more than a match for the Austrians, who are hampered by the slowness of their generals; but Russia cannot be ignored.

In the first campaign she was non-existent, in the second she annexed East Prussia.


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