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Whose Cossacks, and their devil-like ravagings, are hideous to think of: unrestrainable by Dohna, unless he could cut the root of them; which he cannot. Precisely about which day Fermor had decided for Brandenburg, and rolled over thither, towards Custrin and the Frankfurt-on-Oder Country, heralded by fire and murder, as usual." Friedrich's march to Landshut is, again, much admired.
Their bands moved rapidly from one devoted tract to another; yet wherever they had to face concerted resistance which in some cases, at least, put a fitting obstacle in the way of their intended ravagings they turned aside and sought an easier prey elsewhere.
Just at first the mob may obey its leaders and act with moderation; but they are like wild beasts the sight of blood maddens them and if this rising should become a serious one, you will see that there will be burnings and ravagings. Heads will be smitten off, and after slaying those they consider the chief culprits, they will turn against all in a better condition than themselves.
"And it was merely our pretended Allies and Protectors that have desecrated our divine service, utterly wasted our Country, reduced the inhabitants to want and desperation, and, in short, have so behaved that you would not know this region again. Truly these troops have realized for us most of the infamies we heard reported of the Cossacks, and their ravagings in Preussen lately.
I have often reflected since, that I ought to have known better, that had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers, and the calamities of war.
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