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

CHAPTER XII
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He died some three years hence, age 60; ["5th February, 1766;" "born 24th September, 1705" (Hormayr _OEster-reichischer Plutarch,_ ii.

80-111).] an honorable, imperturbable, eupeptic kind of man, sufficiently known to readers by this time.
Friedrich did not recapture Dresden; far enough from that,--though Peace came all the same.

Hardly a week after our recovery of Schweidnitz, Stollberg and his Reichsfolk, especially his Austrians, became unexpectedly pert upon Henri; pressed forward (October 15th), in overpowering force, into his Posts about Freyberg, Pretschendorf and that southwestern Reich-ward part: "No more invadings of Bohemia from you, Monseigneur; no more tormentings of the Reich; here is other work for you, my Prince!"-- and in spite of all Prince Henri could do, drove him back, clear out of Freyberg; northwestward, towards Hulsen and his reserves.

[_Bericht von dem Angriff so am 15ten October, 1762, van der Reichs-Armee auf die Kongilich-Preussischen unter dem Prinzen Heinrich geschehen_ (Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ iii.

362-364).


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