WAR. VOLTAIRE ON SURROUNDING
OBJECTS, CHIEFLY ON MAUPERTUIS, AND THE BATTLES. FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE,
BEFORE AND DURING THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. FRIEDRICH HAS SENT LORD
MARISCHAL TO SPAIN: OTHER FOND HOPES OF FRIEDRICH'S.
BOOK XX.--FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR Chapter
I.--FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Chapter II.--FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN. CAPTURE OF GLATZ (26th July,
1760). DIALOGUE OF FRIEDRICH AND HENRI (from their Private
Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760). DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF
WARBURG (31st July, 1760).
Chapter III.--BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ. LOUDON IS TRYING A STROKE-OF-HAND ON
BRESLAU, IN THE GLATZ FASHION, IN THE INTERIM (July 30th-August 3d).
FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August 1st-
15th). BATTLE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIEGNITZ, DOES ENSUE (Friday
morning, 15th August, 1760).
Chapter IV.--DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS. THE
RUSSIANS MAKE A RAID ON BERLIN, FOR RELIEF OF DAUN AND THEIR OWN BEHOOF
(October 3d-12th, 1760).
Chapter V.--BATTLE OF TORGAU. FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October
15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND.
Chapter VI.--WINTER-QUARTERS 1760-1761. KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE
AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 1760-17th March, 1761). INTERVIEW WITH HERR
PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760). DIALOGUE WITH GENERAL
SALDERN (in the Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761). THERE ARE SOME
WAR-MOVEMENTS DURING WINTER; GENERAL FINANCIERING DIFFICULTIES. CHOISEUL
PROPOSES PEACE.
Chapter VII.--SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ. OF FERDINAND'S
BATTLE OF VELLINGHAUSEN (15th-16th July); AND THE CAMPAIGN 1761. THIRD
SIEGE OF COLBERG.
Chapter VIII.--LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF
SEPTEMBER, 1761).
Chapter IX.--TRAITOR WARKOTSCH.
Chapter X.--FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG. THE PITT
CATASTROPHE: HOW THE PEACE-NEGOTIATION WENT OFF BY EXPLOSION; HOW PITT
WITHDREW (3d October, 1761), AND THERE CAME A SPANISH WAR NEVERTHELESS.
TIFF OF QUARREL BETWEEN KING AND HENRI (March-April, 1762). BRIGHT NEWS
FROM PETERSBURG (certain, Jan. 19th); WHICH GROW EVER BRIGHTER; AND
BECOME A STAR-OF-DAY FOR FRIEDRICH. WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS
SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July, 1762).
Chapter XI.--SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Chapter XII.--SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS.
Chapter XIII.--PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG.
BOOK XXI.--AFTERN
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