History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ... . EUROPE 1768 AD PAPALVENETIANHOUSEOF SAVOY 1 AUSTRIAN IHARSBURCII HOHENZOLLERN. o EUROPE. Russia and theCzarinas. EUROPE. November, and the Austrians, at Leuthen, nearBreslau, exactly one month later. In the cam-paigns of 1758, he encountered the Russiansat Zorndorf, winning a bloody triumph, and hesustained a defeat at Hochkirk, in battle with theAustrians. But England had repudiated Cum-berlands convention and recalled him; Englishand Hanoverian forces we
History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ... . EUROPE 1768 AD PAPALVENETIANHOUSEOF SAVOY 1 AUSTRIAN IHARSBURCII HOHENZOLLERN. o EUROPE. Russia and theCzarinas. EUROPE. November, and the Austrians, at Leuthen, nearBreslau, exactly one month later. In the cam-paigns of 1758, he encountered the Russiansat Zorndorf, winning a bloody triumph, and hesustained a defeat at Hochkirk, in battle with theAustrians. But England had repudiated Cum-berlands convention and recalled him; Englishand Hanoverian forces were again put into thefield, under the capable command of PrinceFrederick of Brunswick, who turned the tide inthat quarter against the French, and the resultsof the year were generally favorable to 1759, the Hanoverian army, under PrinceFerdinand, improved the situation on that side;but the prospects of the King of Prussia wereclouded by heavy disasters. Attempting to pusha victory over the Russians too far, at Kuners-dorf, he was terribly beaten. He lost Dresden,and a great part of Saxony. In the next year herecovered all but Dresden, which he wantonlyand inliumanly bombarded. The war was nowbeing
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