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Read Ebook: History of Frederick the Second Called Frederick the Great. by Abbott John S C John Stevens Cabot
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FOURTH CAMPAIGN OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR.
Desperate Exertions of Frederick.--Aid from England.--Limited Resources.--Opening of the Campaign.--Disgraceful Conduct of Voltaire.--Letter to Voltaire.--An Act of Desperation.--Letter to Count Finckenstein.--Frankfort taken by the Prussians.--Terrible Battle of Kunersdorf.--Anguish of Frederick.--The Disastrous Retreat.--Melancholy Dispatch.--Contemplating Suicide.--Collecting the Wrecks of the Army.--Consternation in Berlin.--Letters to D'Argens.--Wonderful Strategical Skill.--Literary Efforts of the King 475
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED.
Winter Encampment.--Death of Maupertuis.--Infamous Conduct of Voltaire.--Reproof by the King.--Voltaire's Insincerity.-- Correspondence.--The King publishes his Poems.--Dishonorable Conduct of the King.--New Encampment near Dresden.--Destruction of Frederick's Army in Silesia.--Atrocities perpetrated by the Austrians.--Astonishing March.--The Austrians outwitted.--Dresden bombarded and almost destroyed by Frederick.--Battle of Liegnitz.-- Utter Rout of the Austrians.--Undiminished Peril of Frederick.-- Letter to D'Argens 495
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