Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg From the Earliest Accounts to the Death of
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The adventure was fo extraordinary, as to appear like a dream. THE elector, who well knew the vaft con- fequence of embracing the critical moment, would not wait for the arrival of his infantry. In this delicate conjuncture he marched to Nauen, in order to cut off two principal bo- dies of the Swedifh troops, one of which was in the neighbourhood of Brandenburg, and the other near Havelberg. That of Branden- burg had pafTed the Nauen, an hour before the elector's arrival. He purfued them clofcl...y, but not being able to come up with them, lie was informed by prifoners and defcrters, that they were marching to Fehrbellin, where they had fixed the rendezvous with thofe of Havel- berg. THE eledlor's army confided of 5600 horfe ; he had no infantry, and yet he carried with him twelve pieces of cannon. He did not he- fitate ( "4 ) fitate a moment to attack the enemy, notwith- ihmding the inequality of numbers, and the difference between the troops that compofed the two armies. He had only a body of horfe, and the Swedes had ten regiments of loot, whh fome dragoons.
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