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

CHAPTER IV
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Puttkammer, with Hussars, then tried it; Puttkammer was shot dead, and his Hussars too could do nothing.
Back, slowly back, go the Prussians generally, nothing now succeeds with them.

Back to the Kuhgrund again; fairly over the steep brow there; the Russians serrying their ranks atop, rearranging their many guns.

There, once more, rose frightful struggle; desperate attempt by the fordone Prussians to retake that Height.

"Lasted fifteen minutes, line to line not fifty yards asunder;" such musketry,--our last cartridges withal.
Ardent Prussian parties trying to storm up; few ever getting to the top, none ever standing there alive one minute.

This was the death-agony of the Battle.


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