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Jany, The Engagement at Burkersdorf on July 21, 1762

Lecture delivered at the Military Society in Berlin on January 24, 1907. Berlin 1907.

Attack of Prussian cuirassiers on infantry. Drawing by Adolph von Menzel. (taken from: Franz Kugler, History of Frederick the Great. Unabridged popular edition. Leipzig, p. 507).

Jany, The Engagement at Burkersdorf on July 21, 1762

Burkersdorf. Battle plan. Taken from Elze, Frederick the Great. Intellectual World - Fate - Deeds, Berlin 1936.

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