TWO:In the account which Frederick gave, some years after, of this campaign, in his Histoire de Mons Temps, he wrote:
TWO:The king hesitated, as though he had forgotten. But his secretary answered, Three million florins (,500,000).The marquis looked for a moment upon the singular spectacle with astonishment. Then raising his hands, he exclaimed,
TWO:BATTLE OF ROSSBACH, NOVEMBER 5, 1757. I attacked the enemy this morning about eleven. We beat 485him back to the Jews Church-yard, near Frankfort.134 All my troops came into action, and have done wonders. I reassembled them three times. At length I was myself nearly taken prisoner, and we had to quit the field. My coat is riddled with bullets. Two horses were killed under me.135 My misfortune is that I am still alive. Our loss is very considerable. Of an army of forty-eight thousand men, I have at this moment, while I write, not more than three thousand together. I am no longer master of my forces.
TWO:These kind condescensions of his majesty, writes M. DArget, emboldened me to represent to him the brilliant position he now held, and how noble it would be, after being the hero of Germany, to become the pacificator of Europe.