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

CHAPTER V
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Saxony is all theirs; cannot they maintain Saxony?
Not a Town or a Magazine now belongs to Friedrich there, and he is in number as 1 to 2.

"Maintain Saxony; indisputably you can!" that is the express Vienna Order, as Friedrich happens to know.

The Russians themselves have taken Camp again, and wait visibly, about Landsberg and the Warta Country, till they see Daun certain of executing said Order; upon which they intend, they also, to winter in those Elbe-Prussian parts, and conjointly to crush Friedrich into great confinement indeed.

Friedrich is aware of this Vienna Order; which is a kind of comfort in the circumstances.

The intentions of the hungry Russians, too, are legible to Friedrich; and he is much resolved that said Order shall be impossible to Daun.


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