The Russian infantry is almost totally destroyed.

Of my own wrecks, all that I have been able to assemble amounts to 32,000 men; with these I am pushing on to throw myself across the enemy's road, and either perish or save the Capital.

That is not what you [you Berliners] will call a deficiency of resolution.
"For the event I cannot answer.

If I had more lives than one, I would sacrifice them all to my Country.

But if this stroke fail, I think I am clear-scores with her, and that it will be permissible to look a little to myself.