feldmarschall

Updated: May 7, 2025

Bridge, "worth 100,000 thalers," is instantly ablaze: some 400 finding the bridge so flamy, and the Prussians at their skirts, were obliged to surrender; Feldmarschall Hildburghausen, sleeping about two miles off, gets himself awakened in this unpleasant manner.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18