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

CHAPTER V
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The Grenadiers plunge forward upon the throat of Daun; but it is into the throat of his iron engines and his tearing billows of cannon-shot that most of them go.

Shorn down by the company, by the regiment, in those terrible 800 yards,--then and afterwards.

Regiment STUTTERHEIM was nearly all killed and wounded, say the Books.

You would fancy it was the fewest of them that ever got to the length of selling their lives to Daun, instead of giving them away to his 400 cannon.

But it is not so.


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