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

CHAPTER IV
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195.] A man that for caution and slowness could make no use of his victory! The Austrian force in the Field this day is counted to have been 60,000; their losses in killed, wounded and missing, 8,114.

The Prussians, who began 34,000 in strength, lost 13,773; of whom prisoners (including all the wounded), 5,380.

Their baggage, we have seen, was not meddled with: they lost 45 cannon, 22 flags,--a loss not worth adding, in comparison to this sore havoc, for the second time, in the flower of the Prussian Infantry.

[Retzow, i.

141 (whose numbers are apt to be inaccurate); Kutzen, p.


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