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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Meissen, April 26: King of Prussia moved troops from Freyberg to Schelltau, withdrawing cantonment chain from Tharandt Forest to Elbe without losses or Austrian interference.
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MEISSEN. April 26.
On the 24th, the King of Prussia left Freyberg very early in the Morning, and lay that Night at this Place. The next Day he went to Wilfsdruff, in order to withdraw that Part of the Chain of Cantonment which extends from the Forest of Tharandt, on the Right, to the Elbe, which was happily performed without any Loss whatever : And his Prussian Majesty arrived this Morning at Four o'Clock, at Schelltau, a very small Village, distant about half a League from hence ; and there the Head Quarters are at present fixed. The Troops that were at Freyberg, and in that Neighbourhood, having first sent off their Baggage, had Orders to begin their March Yesterday at Three in the Afternoon, which has likewise been effected without any Interruption from the Austrians.
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Meissen
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April 26
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without any loss whatever : ... without any interruption from the austrians
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On the 24th, the King of Prussia left Freyberg very early in the Morning, and lay that Night at this Place. The next Day he went to Wilfsdruff, in order to withdraw that Part of the Chain of Cantonment which extends from the Forest of Tharandt, on the Right, to the Elbe, which was happily performed without any Loss whatever : And his Prussian Majesty arrived this Morning at Four o'Clock, at Schelltau, a very small Village, distant about half a League from hence ; and there the Head Quarters are at present fixed. The Troops that were at Freyberg, and in that Neighbourhood, having first sent off their Baggage, had Orders to begin their March Yesterday at Three in the Afternoon, which has likewise been effected without any Interruption from the Austrians.