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

CHAPTER V
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159-174; Retzow, ii.

299 et seq.; UMSTANDLICHE BESCHREIBUNG DES &C, (in Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ ii.

823-848): in _Helden-Geschichte,_ or in _Anonymous of Hamburg_ (iv.

245-300), the Daun DESPATCHES, the Lists, &c.]-- On Torgau-field, behind that final Prussian half-moon, there reigned, all night, a confusion which no tongue can express.

Poor wounded men by the hundred and the thousand, weltering in their blood, on the cold wet ground; not surgeons or nurses, but merciless predatory sutlers, equal to murder if necessary, waiting on them and on the happier that were dead.


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