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His nephew, the Crown Prince Ferdinand, served under him with distinction. Toward the conclusion of the campaign an army under Broglio again pushed forward and succeeded in defeating the Prince von Ysenburg, who was to have covered Hesse with seven thousand men at Sangerhausen; another body of troops under Soubise also beat Count Oberg, on the Lutterberg.
At Edersleben, near Sangerhausen, a high pole was planted in the ground and a tarbarrel was hung from it by a chain which reached to the ground. The barrel was then set on fire and swung round the pole amid shouts of joy. In Denmark and Norway also midsummer fires were kindled on St. John's Eve on roads, open spaces, and hills.
"Churches are all smashed; obscene songs were sung, in form of litany, from the pulpits and altars; what was done with the communion-vessels, when they were not worth stealing," is hideous to the religious sense, and shall not be mentioned in human speech. SANGERHAUSEN, 23d OCTOBER, 1757. From a Tanner, Lindauer by name, they bargained for a buckskin; and having taken, would not pay it.
At Edersleben, near Sangerhausen, a high pole was planted in the ground and a tar-barrel was hung from it by a chain which reached to the ground. The barrel was then set on fire and swung round the pole amid shouts of joy.
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