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

CHAPTER II
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Gone he; and has left so few of his like: a man that could ill be spared at present!--Day is sinking; we find we have lost, in killed, wounded and prisoners, some 6,000 men.

"About sunset,"-- flaming July sun going down among the moorlands on such a scene,--Wedell gives it up; retires slowly towards Kay Bridge.

Slowly; not chased, or molested; Soltikof too glad to be rid of him.

Soltikof's one aim is, and was, towards Crossen; towards Austrian Junction, and something to live upon.

Soltikof's loss of men is reckoned to be heavier even than Wedell's: but he could far better afford it.


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