The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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Page 59
... corps of Austrians , who were also equally unprepared to take the field , hastened , under the command of Browne , to their relief , but were , on the 1st of October , defeated at Lowositz , and the fourteen thousand Saxons under ...
... corps of Austrians , who were also equally unprepared to take the field , hastened , under the command of Browne , to their relief , but were , on the 1st of October , defeated at Lowositz , and the fourteen thousand Saxons under ...
Page 67
... corps was taken prisoner . Dresden also fell ; Schmettau , the Prussian commandant , had , up to this period , bravely held out , notwithstanding the smallness of the garrison , but , dispirited by the constant ill success , he at ...
... corps was taken prisoner . Dresden also fell ; Schmettau , the Prussian commandant , had , up to this period , bravely held out , notwithstanding the smallness of the garrison , but , dispirited by the constant ill success , he at ...
Page 71
... corps , which no soon- er made its appearance in Nuremberg † and Bamberg than the whole of the South was seized with a general panic , Charles , duke of Würtemberg , for instance , preparing for instant flight from Stuttgard ...
... corps , which no soon- er made its appearance in Nuremberg † and Bamberg than the whole of the South was seized with a general panic , Charles , duke of Würtemberg , for instance , preparing for instant flight from Stuttgard ...
Page 115
... corps was re- duced to one half , and some other trifling modes of economy were resolved upon . The hereditary compact , as it was termed , was at length concluded , a . D. 1771 ; by it , the power of the duke was for the future to be ...
... corps was re- duced to one half , and some other trifling modes of economy were resolved upon . The hereditary compact , as it was termed , was at length concluded , a . D. 1771 ; by it , the power of the duke was for the future to be ...
Page 120
... corps of hussars , which consisted of one colonel , six officers , and two privates . There were court- counsellors attached to the smallest barony belonging to the empire , and , in Franconia and Swabia , the petty lords had their ...
... corps of hussars , which consisted of one colonel , six officers , and two privates . There were court- counsellors attached to the smallest barony belonging to the empire , and , in Franconia and Swabia , the petty lords had their ...
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