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

CHAPTER IX
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By the King's order, is to try it himself in a collective form.

Had Heyde food, he would care little.
"Romanzow, who is now in Eugen's old Camp, summons the Veteran; they say, it is 'for the twenty-fifth time,'-- not yet quite the last.

Heyde consults his people: 'KAMERADEN, what think you should I do ?' 'THUN SIE'S DURCHAUS NICHT, HERR OBRIST, Do not a whit of it, Herr Colonel: we will defend ourselves as long as we have bread and powder.' [Seyfarth, iii.

28; Archenholtz, ii.

304.] It is grim frost; Heyde pours water on his walls.


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