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

CHAPTER IV
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August 24th, at two in the morning, he died .-- Great sorrow.

August 26th, there was soldier's funeral; poor Kleist's coffin borne by twelve Russian grenadiers; very many Russian Officers attending, who had come from the Camp for that end; one Russian Staff-Officer of them unbuckling his own sword to lay on the bier, as there was want of one.

King Friedrich had Kleist's Portrait hung in the Garnison Kirche.

Freemason Lodge, in 1788, set up a monument to him," [Kriele, pp.

39-43.]--which still stands on the Frankfurt pavement, and is now in sadly ruinous state.
The Prussian loss, in this Battle, was, besides all the cannon and field-equipages: 6,000 killed, 13,000 wounded (of which latter, 2,000 badly, who fell to the Russians as prisoners); in all, about 19,000 men.


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