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

CHAPTER XIII
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Thick mist mantles everything, and it is difficult to know what the Russians have on hand in their sylvan seclusions.

After a time, it becomes manifest the Russians are on retreat; winding round, through the southern woods, behind Zorndorf and the charred Villages, to Klein Kamin, Landsberg way.

Friedrich, following now on the heel of them, finds all got to Klein Kamin, to breakfast there in their Wagenburg refectory,--sharply vigilant, many FLECHES (little arrow-shaped redoubts, so named) and much artillery round them.

Nothing considerable to be done upon them, now or afterwards, except pick up stragglers, and distress their rear a little.

The King himself, in the first movement, was thought to be in alarming peril, such a blaze of case-shot rose upon him, as he went reconnoitring foremost of all.
[Tempelhof, ii.


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