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

CHAPTER II
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[_Guerre de Boheme._] Soul more worthy of damnation I have seldom known." "SEPTEMBER 19th (five days after dropping Seckendorf), Saxe actually gets joined with Maillebois;--not quite at Amberg, but at Vohenstrauss, in that same Sulzbach Country, a forty miles to eastward, or Prag-ward, of Amberg.

Maillebois and he conjoined are between 50 and 60,000.

They are got now to the Bohemian Boundary, edge of the Bohemian Forest (big BOHMISCHE WALD, Mountainous woody Country, 70 miles long); they are within 60 miles of Pilsen, within 100 of Prag itself,--if they can cross the Forest.

Which may be difficult." PRINCE KARL AND THE GRAND-DUKE, HEARING OF MAILLEBOIS, GO TO MEET HIM (September 14th); AND THE SIEGE OF PRAG IS RAISED.
"SEPTEMBER llth, the Besieged at Prag notice that the Austrian fire slackens; that the Enemy seems to be taking away his guns.

Villages and Farmsteads, far and wide all round, are going up in fire.


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