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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IX
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425.] the youngest about Fritz's own age.

[NOTE OF THE COUSIN MARGRAVES .-- Great Elector, by his Second Wife, had five Sons, two of whom left Children;]--as follows (so far as they concern us,--he others omitted):-- 1.

Son PHILIP'S Children (Mother the Old Dessauer's Sister) are: Friedrich Wilhelm (1700), who wished much, but in vain, to marry Wilhelmina.

Heinrich Friedrich (1709), a comrade of Fritz's in youth; sometimes getting into scrapes;--misbehaved, some way, at the Battle of Molwits (first of Friedrich's Battles), 1741, and was inexorably CUT by the new King, and continued under a cloud thenceforth .-- This PHILIP ("Philip Wilhelm") died 1711, his forty-third year; Widow long survived him.
2.

Son ALBERT'S Children (Mother a Courland Princess) are: Karl (1705); lived near Custrin; became a famed captain, in the Silesian Wars, under his Cousin.


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