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

CHAPTER X
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Pursuit lasted little more than two miles, and was never hot.
The loss of men, on both sides, was not far from equal, and rather in favor of the Austrian side:--Austrians counted in killed, wounded and missing, 4,410 men; Prussians 4,613; [Orlich, i.

108; Kansler, p.

235, correct; _Helden-Geschichte,_ i.

895, incorrect.]--but the Prussians bivouacked on the ground, or quartered in these Villages, with victory to crown them, and the thought that their hard day's work had been well done.

Besides Margraf Friedrich, Volunteer from Holland, there lay among the slain Colonel Count von Finkenstein (Old Tutor's Son), King's friend from boyhood, and much loved.


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