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He is, by every means, girding up the loins of Neisse for a tight defence; has put 1,600 men into it, with proper stores for them, with a resolute skilful Captain at the top of them: assiduous Browne had been at Ottmachau, as the outpost of Neisse, a day or two before; and, they say, had admonished them "Not to yield on any terms, for he would certainly come to their relief."
"Up to this time, the whole conquest has cost only Twenty Men, and Two Officers, one of whom is the poor De Rege, whom you have seen at Berlin," De Rege, Engineer Major, killed here at Ottmachau, in Schwerin's late tussle. "You are greatly wanting to me here. I would willingly give ten cubic leagues of ground for a genius similar to yours.
Friedrich marches from Ottmachau, accordingly, 29th March; Kalkstein, Holstein-Beck, and others are to be rendezvoused before Neisse, in the interim; trenches ready for opening on the sixth day hence; and in this manner, climbs these Mountains, and sees Jagerndorf Country for the first time.
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