[134] This was a mistake. Frederick had probably been misinformed.
[135] There were three horses shot under Frederick; but from the third the king dismounted before he fell.
[136] Haddick and Loudon were two of the most able generals in the army of Soltikof.
[137] Prince Henry.
[138] This was a slip of the pen. The battle of Kunersdorf was on the 12th.
[139] “I pray God!” Even the heart of the atheist in hours of calamity yearns for a God.
[140] The king here undoubtedly refers to the vial of poison which he invariably carried in his waistcoat pocket.
[141] “Of the 14,000 men who had made the expedition with him, only 3000 remained unwounded at the time of the capitulation.”—Life of Frederick II., by Lord Dover, vol. ii., p. 134.
[142] Carlyle, vol. v., p. 469.
[143] Biographie Universelle.