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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. IX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER I
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Brunswick in General duly fell in, first to the Father; then, in a few months more, to Karl with his Charlotte: and from them proceeded, in due time, another Karl, of whom we shall hear in this History;--and of whom all the world heard much in the French Revolution Wars; in 1792, and still more tragically afterwards.

Shot, to death or worse, at the Battle of Jena, October, 1806; "battle lost before it was begun,"-- such the strategic history they give of it.

He peremptorily ordered the French Revolution to suppress itself; and that was the answer the French Revolution made him.

From this Karl, what NEW Queens Caroline of England and portentous Dukes of Brunswick, sent upon their travels through the anarchic world, profitable only to Newspapers, we need not say!-- 2.

Anton Ulrich; named after his august Great-Grandfather; does not write novels like him.


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