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Updated: June 17, 2025
Indignant Butturlin chased violently, eager to punish Platen; but could get no hold: found Platen was clear off, to Pommern, on what errand Butturlin knew well, if not so well what to do in consequence. That, on the whole, was what Butturlin did. Friedrich stayed at Bunzelwitz above a fortnight after Butturlin.
DESTROYERS: Tipperary 1,850 160 Turbulent 980 100 Fortune 950 100 Sparrowhawk 935 100 Ardent 950 100 Nestor 950 100 Nomad 950 100 Shark 950 100 The reported German losses are as follows. The actual losses may be much greater: BATTLE CRUISERS: Tonnage Officers and Men Lützow 28,000 1,150 BATTLESHIP: Pommern 13,040 736
Charles lay sullenly dormant; Danes meanwhile operating upon his Holstein interests and adjoining territories; Saxons, Russians, battering continually at Swedish Pommern, continually marching thither, and then marching home again, without success, always through the Brandenburg Territory, as they needs must.
On the German side, the battle cruiser Lützow sank as a result of her injuries, the predreadnought battleship Pommern was blown up by a torpedo, three light cruisers were sunk, and four or five other ships suffered from torpedo or mine. The contacts made by British destroyers and cruisers confirm the accounts of the Germans as to the course of their fleet during the night.
Gustav, at his first landing, had seized Pommern, and swept it clear of Austrians, for himself and for his own wants; not too regardful of George Wilhelm's claims on it. He cleared out Frankfurt-on-Oder, Custrin and other Brandenburg Towns, in a similar manner, by cannon and storm, when needful; drove the Imperialists and Tilly forth of these countries.
Distance to Konigsberg, by the direct road, is about 500 miles; by this winding one, it must have been 800: Journey thither took nine days in all. Obliquely through Pommern, almost to the coast of the Baltic; their ultimatum there a place called Coslin, where they reviewed with strictness, omitting Colberg, a small Sea-Fortress not far rearward, time being short.
Louis, now that the Peace of Nimwegen had come, and only the Elector of Brandenburg was still in harness, said steadily, though anxious enough to keep well with the Elector, "They are my allies, these Swedes; it was on my bidding they invaded you: can I leave them in such a pass? It must not be." So Pommern had to be given back: a miss which was infinitely grievous to Friedrich Wilhelm.
If the Kaiser confiscate your Uncles, against law; seize your Pommern; rob you on the public highways, George Wilhelm, even in such case, is full of dubitations.
In June, to Magdeburg, round by Cleve; and home again for some days. July is Pommern: Onward thence to Schlesien, oftenest in August; Schlesien the last place, and generally not done with till well on in September. But we will speak of these things, more specially, another time.
Swedish Pommern; the Elector already had: last year, coming toward it ever since the Exploit of Fehrbellin, he had invaded Swedish Pommern; had besieged and taken Stettin, nay Stralsund too, where Wallenstein had failed; cleared Pommern altogether of its Swedish guests, who had tried next in Preussen, with what luck we see.
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