Strehlen, 7th
Chapter III. -- GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN: NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT BRESLAU.
Chapter IV. -- FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN, INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE.
Chapter V. -- KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF: FRIEDRICH GETS NEISSE, IN A FASHION.
EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD BRINGS ABOUT A MEETING AT KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF (9th
FRIEDRICH TAKES NEISSE BY SHAM SIEGE (CAPTURE NOT SHAM); GETS HOMAGED IN
Chapter VI. -- NEW MAYOR OF LANDSHUT MAKES AN INSTALLATION SPEECH.
Chapter VII. -- FRIEDRICH PURPOSES TO MEND THE KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF
FAILURE: FORTUNES OF THE BELLEISLE ARMAMENT. THE FRENCH SAFE IN PRAG;
KAISERWAHL JUST COMING ON. BROGLIO HAS A BIVOUAC OF PISEK; KHEVENHULLER
LOOKS IN UPON THE DONAU
Chapter VIII. -- FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA, ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS.
Chapter IX. -- WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT.
WILHELMINA AT THE CORONATION. THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF WURTEMBERG,
RETURNING FROM BERLIN FAVORS US WITH
Chapter X. -- FRIEDRICH DOES HIS MORAVIAN EXPEDITION WHICH PROVES A MERE
IGLAU IS GOT, BUT NOT THE MAGAZINE AT IGLAU. THE SAXONS THINK IGLAU
ENOUGH; THE FRENCH GO HOME. FRIEDRICH SUBMERGES THE MORAVIAN COUNTRIES;
BUT CANNOT BRUNN, WHICH IS THE SAXONS HAVE NO CANNON FOR BRUNN, CANNOT
AFFORD ANY; THERE IS A HIGH
Chapter XI. --NUSSLER IN NEISSE, WITH THE OLD DESSAUER AND WALRAVE. HOW
NUSSLER HAPPENED TO BE IN NEISSE, MAY, 1742.
Chapter XII. -- PRINCE KARL DOES COME ON.
Chapter XIII. --BATTLE OF CHOTUSITZ.
Chapter XIV. -- PEACE OF BRESLAU.
BOOK XIV.--THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.--August, 1742-July,
1744.
Chapter I.--FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS. SETTLES THE
SILESIAN BOUNDARIES, THE SILESIAN ARRANGEMENTS; WITH MANIFEST PROFIT TO
SILESIA AND HIMSELF. OPENING OF THE OPERA-HOUSE AT BERLIN. FRIEDRICH
TAKES THE WATERS AT AACHEN, WHERE VOLTAIRE COMES TO SEE HIM.
Chapter II.--AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS ARE ON THE MOUNTING HAND. WAR-PHENOMENA IN
THE WESTERN PARTS: KING GEORGE TRIES, A SECOND TIME, TO DRAW HIS SWORD;
TUGS AT IT VIOLENTLY, FOR SEVEN MONTHS (February-October, 1742). HOW DUC
D'HARCOURT, ADVANCING TO REINFORCE THE ORIFLAMME, HAD TO SPLIT HIMSELF
IN TWO; AND BECOME AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA," TO LITTLE EFFECT. HOW
BELLEISLE, RETURNING FROM DRESDEN WITHOUT CO-OPERATION FOUND THE ATTACK
HAD BEEN DONE,--IN A FATALLY REVERSE WAY. PRAG EXPECTING SIEGE. COLLOQUY
WITH BROGLIO ON THAT INTERESTING POINT. PRAG BESIEGED. CONCERNING THE
ITALIAN WAR WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY WENT ON, ALL ALONG. SCE
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