kuestrin

Updated: May 8, 2025

The contribution of one hundred and forty millions was, nevertheless, to be paid, and the French garrisons in the Prussian fortresses of Glogau, Kuestrin, and Stettin were to be maintained at the expense of Prussia.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

Here the king learned that though Kuestrin, which the Russians were besieging, still held out, the town had been barbarously destroyed by the enemy. In fierce anger the army pressed forward.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - With Frederick the Great : A Story of the Seven Years' War

The King was finally compelled to retreat, the Russians, under Fermor, crossing the Oder, murdering and burning on their route, converting Kuestrin, which refused to yield, into a heap of rubbish, and threatening Berlin. They were met by the enraged King at Zorndorf.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13