The Seven Weeks' War1867 |
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4-pounder advanced guard Archduke arms attack Austrian army Austrian corps battle BATTLE OF KÖNIGGRÄTZ Bistritz Bohemia bridge Brigade campaign cavalry Chlum columns combatants Commandant of Brigade.-Colonel Commandant of Brigade.-Major-General corps d'armée Count Bismark Crown Prince Cuirass Regiment declared defile depôt despatch detachments Diet Dragoons duchies eight Elbe enemy Federal Field Jäger Battalion fifth corps fire flank force formed fortress frontier Gablenz garrison Germanic Confederation Gitschin Görlitz Government ground Hanover head-quarters hill Holstein horse artillery Hussars Infantry Infantry Regiment Iser Josephstadt June Königgrätz Königinhof Landwehr Liebenau Major-Gen miles military mountains Münchengrätz Nachod needle-gun Neisse occupied officers peace Podoll position Prince Frederick Charles Prussian army Prussian corps Prussian troops pushed railway rear Regiment Reichenberg reserve retreat rifled river road Sadowa Saxony Schleswig Schleswig-Holstein Second Army sent side Silesia sixth corps Skalitz soldiers squadrons staff town Trautenau Treaty Türnau Uhlans Vienna village waggons wounded
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Страница 320 - Fransky let them go, and they dashed in with the bayonet. The Austrians would not retire, but waited for the struggle ; and in the wood above Benatek was fought out one of the fiercest combats which the war has seen. The...
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