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Updated: May 11, 2025
Stoffeln set himself down on the north side of the place; planted cannon in certain clay-pits thereabouts, and about nine o'clock began firing shells and incendiary grenadoes at a great rate. Of Custrin, by five in the evening, there was nothing left but the black ashes; the Garrison standing unharmed, and the Church, School-house and some stone edifices in a charred skeleton condition.
Custrin, an arsenal and garrison, begirt with two rivers, and with awful bulwarks, and bastions cased in stone, "perhaps too high," say the learned, is likely to be impregnable to Russian engineering on those terms. Here, with brevity, is the catastrophe of Custrin. TUESDAY, 15th AUGUST, 1758. The pickeering and manoeuvring of Stoffeln shall not detain us.
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