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FORE: ¡°Frederick.¡± Battle of Hohenfriedberg.¡ªReligious Antagonism.¡ªAnecdote of the King.¡ªRetreat of the Austrians.¡ªHorrors of War.¡ª¡°A slight Pleasantry.¡±¡ªSufferings of the Prussian Army.¡ªThe Victory of Fontenoy.¡ªFrederick¡¯s Pecuniary Embarrassments.¡ªExecutive Abilities of Maria Theresa.¡ªInflexibility of the Austrian Queen.¡ªThe Retreat to Silesia.¡ªThe Surprise at Sohr.¡ªMilitary Genius of Frederick.¡ªGreat Victory of Sohr.

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FORE:On the 25th of December, 1745, the peace of Dresden was signed. The demands of Frederick were acceded to. Augustus III. of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, and George II. of England became parties to the treaty. The next day Frederick attended sermon in the Protestant church. Monday morning his army, by slow marches, commenced its return to Brandenburg. Frederick, highly elated by the wonderful and almost miraculous change in his affairs, entered his carriage in company with his two brothers, and drove rapidly toward Berlin. The next day,373 at two o¡¯clock in the afternoon, they reached the heath of Britz, five miles out from the city. Here the king found an immense concourse of the citizens, who had come on horseback and in carriages to escort him to his palace. Frederick sat in an open phaeton, accompanied by the Prince of Prussia and Prince Henry. The throng was so great that the horses could only proceed at the slowest pace. The air resounded with shouts of ¡°Long live Frederick the Great.¡± The king was especially gracious, saying to those who eagerly crowded around his carriage wheels,Another severe fit of coughing ensued, and the king, having with difficulty got rid of the phlegm, said, ¡°The mountain is passed; we shall be better now.¡± These were his last words. The expiring monarch sat in his chair, but in a state of such extreme weakness that he was continually sinking down, with his chest and neck so bent forward that breathing was almost impossible. One of his faithful valets took the king upon his knee and placed his left arm around his waist, while the king threw his right arm around the valet¡¯s neck.

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FORE:Soon after, the king returned to Berlin and summoned his daughter to his presence. He received her very graciously. The queen, however, remained quite unreconciled, and was loud in the expression of her anger: ¡°I am disgraced, vanquished, and my enemies are triumphant!¡± she exclaimed. Her chagrin was so great that she fell quite sick. To a few words of sympathy which her child uttered, she replied, ¡°Why do you pretend to weep? It is you who have killed me.¡±¡°Believe, my charming sister, that never brother in the world loved with such tenderness a sister so charming as mine.¡±

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FORE:¡°I shall send you a curious pamphlet, the only work I almost ever knew that changed the opinions of many. It is called ¡®Considerations on the present German War.¡¯ The confirmation of the King of Prussia¡¯s victory near Torgau does not prevent the disciples of the pamphlet from thinking that the best thing which could happen for us would be to have that monarch¡¯s head shot off.¡±162Kaunitz, the Austrian prime minister, was by no means prepared for this decisive action. In less than a week Frederick had one hundred thousand soldiers on the frontiers. Austria had not ten thousand there to meet them. Kaunitz, quite alarmed, assumed a supplicatory tone, and called for negotiation.

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FORE:Frederick, having carefully scanned the Austrian lines for an instant or two, gave the signal, and all his batteries opened their thunders. Under cover of that storm of iron, several thousand of the cavalry, led by the veteran General Bredow, deployed from behind some eminences, and first at a gentle trot, and then upon the most impetuous run, with flashing sabres, hurled themselves upon the left wing of the Austrian lines. The ground was dry and sandy, and a prodigious cloud of dust enveloped them. For a moment the tornado, vital with human energies, swept on, apparently unobstructed. The first line of the Austrian horse was met, crushed, annihilated. But the second stood as the rock breasts the waves, horse against horse, rider against rider, sabre against sabre. Nothing met the eye but one vast eddying whirlpool of dust, as if writhing in volcanic energies, while here and there the flash of fire and the gleam of steel flickered madly through it.

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