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heads or lose my own. Will you, if I do, be pleased to grant me my
pardon?" The Field-marshal replied, "Yes." The horse of Trenck was
brought: he galloped to the enemy, and returned within four heads knotted
to the horse's mane, himself only slightly wounded in the shoulder.
Munich immediately appointed him major in another regiment. Various and
almost incredible were his feats: among others, a Tartar ran him through
the belly with his lance: Trenck grasped the projecting end with his
hands, exerted his prodigious strength, broke the lance, set spurs to his
horse, and happily escaped. Of this wound, dreadful as it was, he was
soon cured. I myself have seen the two scars, and can affirm the fact; I
also learned this, and many others in 1746, from officers who had served
in the same army.

During this campaign he behaved with great honour, was wounded by an
arrow in the leg, and gained the affection of Field-marshal Munich, but
excited the envy of all the Russians. Towards the conclusion of the war
he had a new misfortune; his regiment was incommoded on all sides by the
enemy: he entreated his colonel, for leave to attack them. The colonel
was once more a Russian, and he was refused. Trenck gave him a blow, and
called aloud to the soldiers to follow him. They however being Russians,
remained motionless, and he was put under arrest. The court-martial
sentenced him to death, and all hope of reprieve seemed over. The
general would have granted his pardon, but as he was himself a foreigner,
he was fearful of offending the Russians. The day of execution came, and
he was led to the place of death, Munich so contrived it that
Field-marshal Lowenthal should pass by, at this moment, in company within
his lady. Trenck profited by the opportunity, spoke boldly, and
prevailed. A reprieve was requested, and the sentence was changed into
banishment and labour in Siberia.

Trenck protested against this sentence. The Field-marshal wrote to
Petersburg, and an order came that he should be broken, and conducted out
of the Russian territories. This order was executed, and he returned
into Hungary to his father. At this period he espoused the daughter of
Field-marshal Baron Tillier, one of the first families in Switzerland.
The two brothers of his wife each became lieutenant-general, one of whom
died honourably during the seven years' war. The other was made
commander-general in Croatia, where he is still living, and is