Anecdote from the last Prussian war

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Battle of Jena and Auerstedt

The anecdote from the last Prussian war is an anecdote by Heinrich von Kleist .

The text first appeared in the 6th sheet of October 6, 1810 in the journal “ Berliner Abendblätter ”, which was founded by Kleist himself and edited mainly by himself .

The last Prussian war means the defeat of the Prussians against Napoleon in 1806, in the narrower sense the battle of Jena and Auerstedt .

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The content is already outlined in the famous exposition consisting only of the first sentence : “In a village near Jena, the innkeeper told me on a trip to Frankfurt that several hours after the battle, around the time that the village was there Already completely abandoned by the army of Prince von Hohenlohe and surrounded by French, who thought it was occupied, a single Prussian horseman would have shown it; and assured me that if all the soldiers who fought that day had been as brave as this one, the French would have had to be beaten, they would have been three times stronger than they really were. "

This is followed, in the words of the host, the more detailed circumstances and events that prove the bravery of the rider: Although he was cut off from his own troops, he took a quiet break and drank schnapps, also smoked a pipe and finally, as he was attacked by three French men, they were cut down and their horses kidnapped.

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