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

CHAPTER III
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&c.: and _Proceedings of a Court-Martial, held at the Horse-Guards, 7th-24th March and 25th March-5th April, 1760, in Trial of Lord George Sackville_ (London, 1760)].

In Knesebeck, _Ferdinand wahrend des siebenjahrigen Krieges_ (i.

395), Ferdinand's Letter to Friedrich of "July 31st;" and (i.

398-418 and ii.

33-36) many special details about Sackville and "August 1st." "And what is this one hears from Gohfeld in the evening?
The Hereditary Prince, busy there on us during the very hours of Minden, has blown our rear-guard division to the winds there;--and we must move southward, one and all of us, without a moment's delay! Out of this rabbit-hole the retreat by rearward is through a difficult country, the Westphalian Gates so called; fatal to Varus's Legions long ago.


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