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BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763.
Chapter I.—FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Chapter II.—FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN.
CAPTURE OF GLATZ (26th July, 1760).
DIALOGUE OF FRIEDRICH AND HENRI (from their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760).
DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760).
Chapter III.—BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ.
LOUDON IS TRYING A STROKE-OF-HAND ON BRESLAU, IN THE GLATZ FASHION, IN THE INTERIM (July 30th-August 3d).
FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August 1st-15th).
BATTLE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIEGNITZ, DOES ENSUE (Friday morning, 15th August, 1760).
Chapter IV.—DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS.
THE RUSSIANS MAKE A RAID ON BERLIN, FOR RELIEF OF DAUN AND THEIR OWN BEHOOF (October 3d-12th, 1760).
Chapter V.—BATTLE OF TORGAU.
FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October 15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND.
Chapter VI.—WINTER-QUARTERS 1760-1761.
KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 1760-17th March, 1761).
INTERVIEW WITH HERR PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760).
DIALOGUE WITH GENERAL SALDERN (in the Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761).
THERE ARE SOME WAR-MOVEMENTS DURING WINTER; GENERAL FINANCIERING DIFFICULTIES. CHOISEUL PROPOSES PEACE.
Chapter VII.—SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ.
OF FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF VELLINGHAUSEN (15th-16th July); AND THE CAMPAIGN 1761.
THIRD SIEGE OF COLBERG.
Chapter VIII.—LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761).
Chapter IX.—TRAITOR WARKOTSCH.
Chapter X.—FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG.
THE PITT CATASTROPHE: HOW THE PEACE-NEGOTIATION WENT OFF BY EXPLOSION; HOW PITT WITHDREW (3d October, 1761), AND THERE CAME A SPANISH WAR NEVERTHELESS.
TIFF OF QUARREL BETWEEN KING AND HENRI (March-April, 1762).
BRIGHT NEWS FROM PETERSBURG (certain, Jan. 19th); WHICH GROW EVER BRIGHTER; AND BECOME A STAR-OF-DAY FOR FRIEDRICH.
WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July, 1762).
Chapter XI.—SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Chapter XII.—SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS.
Chapter XIII.—PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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