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

CHAPTER V
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Impetuous Stair strove to get ready; "pushed out the Grey Dragoons" for one item.

But the Authorities refused Stair's counsel, as rash again; and made no effectual pursuit at all;--too glad that they had brushed their Battle-field triumphantly clear, and got out of that fatal pinfold in an honorable manner.
MAP: BOOK XIV, Chap V, page 257 GOES HERE-------------------------- "They stayed on the ground till 10 at night; settling, or trying to settle, many things.

The Surgeons were busy as bees, but able for Officers only;--'Dress HIM first!' said the glorious Duke of Cumberland, pointing to a young Frenchman [Excellency Fenelon's Son, grand-nephew of TELEMAQUE] who was worse wounded than his Highness.

Quite in the Philip-Sydney fashion; which was much taken notice of.

'All this while, we had next to nothing to eat' (says one informant) .-- Ten P.M.: after which, leaving a polite Letter to Noailles, 'That he would take care of our Wounded, and bury our Slain as well as his own,' we march [through a pour of rain] to Hanau, where our victuals are, and 12,000 new Hessians and Hanoverians by this time.
"Noailles politely bandaged the Wounded, buried the Dead.


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