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Destructive Prussian Marches in Lusatia Ravage Saxony
From the Vienna Gazette extra a letter reports Prussian forces under Count Aponte and Captain Huffars burning Castles and palaces in Lusatia, looting Count Bruhl properties, sacking gardens, imprisoning officials, and extorting taxes with threats of violence. The piece condemns the treatment of civilians and questions Vienna's authorization of such “discipline” as Saxony is pillaged during war. The account notes forced demolitions at Pforten, Grechwitz, and the rampart pavilion, with 2000 sick housed in Bruhl’s residence and large sums extracted from towns like Hirschberg and Buntzlau.
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Prussia
Lusatia
Dresden
Pforten
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Meath
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Grechwitz
Count Bruhl
Prudian Hussars
M. Schmettau
Berlin
Silesia
Europe
Count Aponte
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Hufsars
Hirschberg
Aponte
Sieur Finnier
Mitus
Glogner
Court of
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Butler
Naumbourg
Buntzlau
Constantinople
Bathan Benneval
Courland
Charles Christian Joseph
Poland
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Warsaw
Germany
Nicholas Nommes
America
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Cornelius Makkis
Flushing
St. Eustatia
Antigua
England
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Portsmouth
Hughes
War of the Line
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Martinico
Guardaloure
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