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

CHAPTER X
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following); Preuss, ii.

112, &c.; Tempelhof, i.

276.] Truly a memorable bit of work; no finer done for a hundred years, or for hundreds of years; and the results of it manifold, immediate and remote.
About 10,000 Austrians are left on the field, 3,000 of them slain; prisoners already 12,000, in a short time 21,000; flags 51, cannon 116;--"Conquest of Silesia" gone to water; Prince Karl and Austria fallen from their high hopes in one day.

The Prussians lost in killed 1,141, in wounded 5,118; 85 had been taken prisoners about Sagschutz and Gohlau, in the first struggle there.

[Kutzen, pp.


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