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

CHAPTER XIV
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[_Helden-Geschichte_ (ii.

702-729) is endless on these Illuminations; the Jauer case, of FREDERICO MAGNO (Jauer in Silesia), is of June 15th (ib.

712).] Omitting very many things, about Silesian Fortresses, Army-Cantons, Silesian settlements, military and civil, which would but weary the reader, we add only this from Bielfeld: dusty Transit of a victorious Majesty, now on the threshold of home.

Precise date (which Bielfeld prudently avoids guessing at) is July 11th, 1742; "M.

de Pollnitz and I are in the suite of the King:-- "We never stopped on the road, except some hours at Frankfurt-on-Oder, where the Fair was just going on.


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