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WAR. VOLTAIRE ON SURROUNDING OBJECTS, CHIEFLY ON MAUPERTUIS, AND THE BATTLES. FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE, BEFORE AND DURING THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. FRIEDRICH HAS SENT LORD MARISCHAL TO SPAIN: OTHER FOND HOPES OF FRIEDRICH'S. BOOK XX.--FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR Chapter I.--FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS. Chapter II.--FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN. CAPTURE OF GLATZ (26th July, 1760). DIALOGUE OF FRIEDRICH AND HENRI (from their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760). DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760). Chapter III.--BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ. LOUDON IS TRYING A STROKE-OF-HAND ON BRESLAU, IN THE GLATZ FASHION, IN THE INTERIM (July 30th-August 3d). FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August 1st- 15th). BATTLE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIEGNITZ, DOES ENSUE (Friday morning, 15th August, 1760). Chapter IV.--DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS. THE RUSSIANS MAKE A RAID ON BERLIN, FOR RELIEF OF DAUN AND THEIR OWN BEHOOF (October 3d-12th, 1760). Chapter V.--BATTLE OF TORGAU. FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October 15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND. Chapter VI.--WINTER-QUARTERS 1760-1761. KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 1760-17th March, 1761). INTERVIEW WITH HERR PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760). DIALOGUE WITH GENERAL SALDERN (in the Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761). THERE ARE SOME WAR-MOVEMENTS DURING WINTER; GENERAL FINANCIERING DIFFICULTIES. CHOISEUL PROPOSES PEACE. Chapter VII.--SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ. OF FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF VELLINGHAUSEN (15th-16th July); AND THE CAMPAIGN 1761. THIRD SIEGE OF COLBERG. Chapter VIII.--LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761). Chapter IX.--TRAITOR WARKOTSCH. Chapter X.--FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG. THE PITT CATASTROPHE: HOW THE PEACE-NEGOTIATION WENT OFF BY EXPLOSION; HOW PITT WITHDREW (3d October, 1761), AND THERE CAME A SPANISH WAR NEVERTHELESS. TIFF OF QUARREL BETWEEN KING AND HENRI (March-April, 1762). BRIGHT NEWS FROM PETERSBURG (certain, Jan. 19th); WHICH GROW EVER BRIGHTER; AND BECOME A STAR-OF-DAY FOR FRIEDRICH. WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July, 1762). Chapter XI.--SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS. Chapter XII.--SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS. Chapter XIII.--PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG. BOOK XXI.--AFTERN
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