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 Czar ordered a retreat, but it was made in miserable order; the King dispatched the Duke of Devonshire to pursue the enemy with thirty thousand men, who made a prodigious slaughter; the vast numbers of the Russians, only increasing their confusion.

Thus did this magnanimous Monarch gain this glorious victory, against double his own number, over some of the best troops in Europe, who had been used to victory. Never could General show more distinguishing proofs of a most heroic courage, than the King in this great day. This victory was thoroughly complete, thirty-five thousand Russians were left dead in the field of battle, twenty-four thousand made prisoners, and thirteen thousand wounded; in short, the Czar before he arrived in Denmark, had lost above eighty thousand men, a loss in one battle almost