The Empress Catharine
approved this change, and remained the ally of Prussia. France now
withdrew from the contest; and in the year 1763, Austria, finding
her treasury completely exhausted, was compelled to make peace with
Prussia. Prussia had no use for her new ally of Tartary, and
Krimgirai, who was already on the march, returned home with his
army.--See "Memoires du Baron de Tott sur les Turcs et les
Tartares."]
BOOK VI.
CHAPTER I.
THE KING'S RETURN.
Berlin was glittering in festal adornment! This was a great, a
joyous day; the first gleam of sunshine, after many long years of
sorrow, suffering, and absolute want. For the last seven years the
king had been absent from his capital-to-day he would return to
Berlin.
After seven years of bloody strife, the powers at Hubertsburg had
declared peace. No nation had enlarged its boundaries by this war.
Not one of the cities or fortresses of the King of Prussia had been
taken from him, and he was forced to content himself with his former
conquest. There had been no successful results! Losses only were to
be calculated.
During these seven years, Russia had lost one hundred and eighty
thousand men, the French two hundred thousand, the Prussians a
hundred and twenty thousand, the English and confederate Germans a
hundred and sixty thousand, and the Saxons ninety thousand--lastly,
the Swedes and the States sixty thousand.
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