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Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rince iiimsclf fell into theweakness of conceiving it to be better to give up his reputation asa soldier than to make a useless sacrifice of the lives of his men, andthus he subscribed the capitidation, in ))ursuance of which his corps,still numbering 10,000 soldiers, with 1800 horses, laid down their arms.Only a few small divisions forced a passage. Prince Augustus, with hisbattalion of grenadiers, defended himself to the last extremity, on theroad to Prenzlau, until he was finally obliged to surrender. The moraleffect of the capitulation was more disastrous even than the loss of thetroops. It planted despondency in all hearts, it scattered charges oftreachery among the people, and gave the widest diffusion to the thoughtthat everything was lost. On the 29th, in like manner, at Pasewalk,4200 men with eight guns laid down their arms without pressingnecessity; at Anklam, General von Bila gave himself up; anotlicrdivision surrendered at Wolgast; the artillery saved by Bliiclicr PLATE I.
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