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against the coming attack. This chai'ge checked the 

 Prussian advance, broke through their centre, and a 

 battery and a battalion of infantry were taken prisoners. 

 Frederick rushed forward and personally tried to rally 

 his troops, but without success. The fate of the day 

 was again trembling in the balance, when again Seidlitz 

 appeared at the head of sixty-one squadrons, brought 

 from the other end of the field, and charging swiftly 

 upon the victorious Eussian cavalry, drove them back 

 before him, back into the morasses of the Mutzel, so that 

 they returned no more during the battle. Frederick 

 openly acknowledged that he owed his success to 

 Seidlitz. This action was so closely contested and so 

 indecisive, that both sides claimed the victory. 



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