Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia Volume 1 by Joseph Towers
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Author: Joseph Towers
Page Count: 132 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130808865
Download Link: Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick the Third, King of Prussia Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 Excerpt: ...by a foreign prince to be hanged, was dated at Peterswald, the 25th of August, 1744. On the second of September following, Frederick arrived before Prague; and proceeded immediately to invest the city. The trenches. Were opened on the tenth 47; andFrederkk made himself master of some redoubts and bastions, which had been erected in the last siege of Prague by the French. The Prussian bombs havmg destroyed almost the old and new towns, together with the Jews town, the commandant, general Harsch, at the intreaty of. the nobility and clergy, and from want" of artillery, was induced to surrender the city to the king of Prussia, on the 16th of the month; and the whole garrison, consisting-of uvelv thousand men, were made prisoners of war. Prince William, brother of the margrave Charles, and cousin germah to Frederick left a garrison of six thousand men in Prague, with a large train of artillery; and the Prussian soldiers are said to have been ordered to lie in the streets, before the houses of the burghers, who were forbidden, on pain of death, to stir out at night4. The king then marched southward up the Moldau towards Tabor, and sent out detachments under lieutenant-general Nassau, who, after some skirmishes, took the towns of Tabor and Budweis, together with the strong castle of Frauenberg, the garrison of which were made prisoners of war. A large body of Prussian troops was also sent into Moravia, where they are represented as having been guilty of great barbarities.. - Memoirs of Frederick III. p. 77 78. Johnson' Memoirs of the King of Pruffia, p. 133, 134. 9 Johnson, ut supra. Bur But a stop was soon put to the progress of the Chap. Prussian arms, by the courage, conduct, and activity, of prince Charles of Lorrain. That able general, on receiving...
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