Identifier: historyoffriedriv5v6carl (find matches)
Title: History of Friedrich 2 of Prussia, called Frederick the Great
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786
Publisher: London Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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her persons, has been omitted,as extinct, or undecipherable by the Grand-Nephew. 6 * Ath, May ye 20th, o.s. (to John, Fourth Marquis of Tweeddale, last Secrc-tary of State for Scotland, and a manor* figure in his day): Letter is at Yester House,East Lothian; Excerpt penes me. BATTLE OF FONTENOY. 45 Chap. VIII.nth May 1745. feebly, and wounded by those DAuteroche people, while he was stilladvancing with shouldered arms;—upon which, and not till which, hedid give it them: in liberal dose; and quite blew them off the ground,for that day. From all which, one has to infer, That the mutual salu-tation by hat was probably a fact; that, for certain, there was someslight preliminary talk and gesticulation, but in the Homeric style, byno means in the Espagnac-French,—not chivalrous epigram at all,mere rough banter, and what is called chaffing;—and in short, thatthe French Mess-rooms (with their eloquent talent that way) hadrounded-off the thing into the current epigrammatic redaction; the
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a a. French Infantry. e. Gallows-Hill, where King i i. Dutch and Austrian b b. French Horse. Louis and the Dauphin Horse. c. Redoubt dEu. were. k. Ingoldsby, starting (in d. Subsidiary French f. English Foot. vain) to attack Battery, which takes g. English Horse. Redoubt dEu. the Dutch in flank. h h. Dutch and Austrian Foot. authentic business-form of it being ruggedly what is now given. Letour Manuscript proceed. * DAuteroche declining the first fire,—or accepting it, if ever of-fered, nobody can say,—the three Guards Regiments, Lord CharlessI on the right, give it him hot and heavy, tremendous rolling fire; * so that DAuteroche, responding more or less, cannot stand it; but1 has at once to rustle into discontinuity, he and his, and roll rapidly * out of the way. And the British Column advances, steadily, terribly, * hurling-back all opposition from it; deeper and deeper into the inter1 rior mysteries of the French Host; blasting its way with gunpowderj 46 SECOND SILESIAN WAR. Bo

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