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 more brilliant than any officer in the corps. My expeneesexpences [sic] attracted notice, for I had only inherited from my father the estate of Scharlack, which produeedproduced [sic] about a thousand crowns a year; and I sometimes spent more than that sum in a month.

In the beginning of September 1743, war was deelareddeclared [sic] between Prussia and the House of Austria. We marched hastily towards Prague, and passed through all Saxony without meeting with the smallest opposition. I dare not relate berehere [sic] what the great Frederick said sorrowfully to us the very morning of our departure from Potzdam when all the officers were assembled about his person. This time FrederiekFrederick [sic] took the field with regret, as I was witness.

If I do not mistake, the King’s army invested Prague on the 14th of September; that of General Schwerin who had marched through Silesia, came a day later from the other side of the Mulda, and we were obliged to wait eight days longer for pontoons, to open a eommunieationcommunication [sic] between the two armies.

General Harsch was obliged to capitulate, after twelve days resistance. Eighteen thousand men were made prisoners of war; the number of the garrison killed and wounded during the siege not exeeedingexceeding [sic] five hundred.

So far we met with no obstaeleobstacle [sic]; however, the Imperial army, under the command of PrineePrince [sic] Charles, who had left the banks of the Rhine, advaneedadvanced [sic] to save Bohemia. His light armed troops being thrieethrice [sic] as numerous as ours, prevented our foraging. Famine and want therefore obliged us to retreat, having no relief to hope for from the country behind us, which we had laid entirely