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

CHAPTER X
19/43

But at last, as, with all helps and the remnants of my own brave Battalion, I had come down to at most 200, I drew back to the Height where the Windmill is," [Kutzen p.

103 (from "Prince de Ligne's DIARY, i.

63, German Translation").]--where many have drawn back, and are standing in sheltered places, a hundred deep, say our Books.
Stiff fighting at Leuthen; especially furious till Leuthen Churchyard, a place with high stone walls, was got.

Leuthen Village, we observe, was crammed with Austrians spitting fire from every coign of vantage; Church and Churchyard especially are a citadel of death.

Cannon playing from the Windmill Heights, too;--moments are inestimable.


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