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

CHAPTER III
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Our main Magazine is at Leitmeritz (should have been brought on to Prag, thinks Friedrich); Commissariat very ill-managed in comparison to what it ought to be,--to what it shall be, if we ever live to make another Campaign.
Heavy artillery is left in Prag (another fault); and from each regiment, one of its baggage-wagons.

[ _Helden-Geschichte,_ i.

1083; Orlich, ii.
41 et seqq.; _Frederic,_ iii.

59; &c.] "We rest a day here at Kunraditz: 21st September, get to the Sazawa River;--22d, to Bistritz (rest a day);--26th, to Miltschin; and 27th, to Tabor:"-- But the Diary would be tedious.
Friedrich goes in two Columns; one along the great road towards Tabor, under Schwerin this, and Friedrich mainly with him; the other to the right, along the River's bank, under Leopold, Young Dessauer, which has to go by wild country roads, or now and then roads of its own making; and much needs the pioneer (a difficult march in the shortening days).
Posadowsky follows with the proviant, drawn by cattle of the horse and ox species, daily falling down starved: great swearing there too, I doubt not! General Nassau is vanguard, and stretches forward successfully at a much lighter pace.
There are two Rivers, considerable branches of the Moldau, coming from eastward; which, and first of them the Sazawa, concern us here.

After mounting the southern Uplands from Prag for a day or two, you then begin to drop again, into the hollow of a River called Sazawa, important in Bohemian Wars.


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