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Updated: May 16, 2025
This is the famed Battle of Prag; fought May 6th, 1757; which sounded through all the world, and used to deafen us in drawing-rooms within man's memory. Friedrich gives the cipher of loss, on both sides, much higher: "This Battle," says he, "which began towards nine in the morning, and lasted, chase included, till eight at night, was one of the bloodiest of the age.
"Co-operation, M. le Marechal; attack on Budweis?" Here is another Fragment: BUDWEIS, JUNE 4th,-PRAG, JUNE 13th.
Austrian Bathyani, summoned hastily out of his Bavarian posts, to succor in this pressing emergency, has arrived in these neighborhoods, some 12,000 regulars under him, preceded by clouds of hussars, whom Ziethen smites a little, by way of handsel; no other Austrian force to speak of hereabouts; and we are now between Bathyani and Prag.
Unadmiring posterity has confirmed the nickname of this Karl IV.; and calls him PFAFFEN-KAISER. He kept mainly at Prag, ready for receipt of cash, and holding well out of harm's way.
I am not afraid of the Junkers here, I have spirits, but the Germans at home have no spirits. You think you fight for freedoms, for democracy, but you fight for this! GEORGE. So you think I'm going to fight for this for money? PRAG. Are you going to fight for me, for the workmens and their childrens? No, you want to keep your money, to make more of it from your war contracts.
"PRAG, 22d AUGUST. In the same hours, while Martin lay coercing Naples, the Army of the Oriflamme in Prag City was engaged in 'furious sallies;" readers may divine what that means for Prag and the Oriflamme!
Broglio has encamped under the walls of Prag; in a ruinous though still blusterous condition; his positions all gone; except Prag and Eger, nothing in Bohemia now his."
He labored to establish fixed rules of grammar and invented a new system of spelling, which is in general use today! He wrote letters, tracts, poems, and hymns. His chief work was "On the Church," based on Wiclif, often to the word and letter. The excitement in Prag continued. The King convened the Estates of the realm for Christmas, 1412.
"Prag is begirdled, bombarded from all the Wischerads, Ziscabergs and Hill environments; every avenue blocked, 'above 60,000 Austrians round it, near 40,000 of them regulars: a place difficult to defend; but with excellent arrangements for defence on Belleisle's part, and the garrison with its blood up. The equal sun looking down on all.
From Ziscaberg top to Weissenberg top may be about five English miles; from the Hradschin to the foot of Ziscaberg, northwest to southeast, will be half that distance, the greatest length of Prag City. Which is rather rhomboidal in shape, its longer diagonal this that we mention. The shorter diagonal, from northmost base of Ziscaberg to southmost of Hradschin, is perhaps a couple of miles.
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