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

CHAPTER IV
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The infantry he strictly prohibited to stir from their position,--"No saying, if we come into the level ground, with such an enemy!"-- and passed the night under arms.

Far on our left, or what was once our left, Ziethen with all his squadrons, nay Hulsen with most of his battalions, continued steady on the ground; and marched away at their leisure, as rear-guard.
"It seemed," says Tempelhof, in splenetic tone, "as if Feldmarschall Daun, like a good Christian, would not suffer the sun to go down on his wrath.

This day, nearly the longest in the year, he allowed the Prussian cavalry, which had beaten Nadasti, to stand quiet on the field till ten at night [till nine]; he did not send a single hussar in chase of the infantry.

He stood all night under arms; and next day returned to his old Camp, as if he had been afraid the King would come back.

Arriving there himself, he could see, about ten in the morning, behind Kaurzim and Planian, the whole Prussian Baggage fallen into such a coil that the wagons were with difficulty got on way again; nevertheless he let it, under cover of the grenadier battalion Manteuffel, go in peace." [Tempelhof, i.


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