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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt:... he gives to this victory, and to the man who gained it, in his own history of the war, is totally at variance with such a supposition. He was also accustomed to say, when speaking of the actions of himself and his different generals during the seven years' war, "My brother Henry is the only one of us, who never committed a fault!"t Towers' Memoirs of Frederic III. f Essai sur la Vie et le Regne de Frederic II., par l'Abbe Denina. The battle of Freyberg took place on the 29th of October; and from this moment the speedy conclusion of the war became certain, while the continued advantages of the Prussian arms assisted in hastening it. Prince Henry, after his victory, pushed forward, and drove the army of the empire into Bohemia. He then detached General Kleist, with a considerable body of men, in further pursuit of it; who destroyed the great Austrian magazines at Saatz, and made incursions to the very gates of Prague. The campaign of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick had been this year very successful. The hereditary Prince of Brunswick commenced it, by taking the fortress of Arensberg, by which the communication of the French army with Cassel was cut ofF. This was followed by a victory obtained over the French troops, commanded by Soubise and d'Etrees, at Wilhelmstal, by Prince Ferdinand, who drove them under the walls of Cassel, after 4000 of their men had been killed, and many taken prisoners. The Prince behaved with great generosity to the French officers, who had lost all their baggagje. t As the obtaining possession of Cassel was the great object of Ferdinand, he next turned his Muller, Tableau des Guerres de Frederic le Grand. attention to cutting off the communication of that town with Frankfort. In order to effect this, he attacked the body of...