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

CHAPTER IX
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And you must make your Arrangement (DISPOSITION) for more than one attack; so that if one fail, the other shall certainly succeed.

I hope you will put off no longer;--otherwise the blame of all the mischief that might arise out of longer delay must lie on you alone." [Ib.

i.

71.] Goltz arrived with this emphatic Piece, Tuesday Evening, after his course of seventy miles: this did at last rouse our cautious Young Dessauer; and so there is next obtainable, on much compression, the following authentic Excerpt:-- "GLOGAU, 8th MARCH, 1741.

His Durchlaucht the Prince Leopold summoned all the Generals at noon; and informed them That, this very night, Glogau must be won.


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