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The life of Baron Frederic Trenck, containing his adventures; his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes historical, political and personal. Translated from the German, by Thomas Holcroft.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.
- Standardized Title:
- Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nobility--Germany--Prussia--Biography.
- Nobility.
- Soldiers--German7--Prussia--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Nobility--Germany--Prussia--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Germany--History--1740-1806.
- Germany.
- Austria--History--Maria Theresa, 1740-1780.
- Austria.
- Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.
- Trenck, Friedrich.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417,[3]p., [1]leaf of plates ) 1 port. ;
- Other Title:
- Life of Baron Frederic Trenck,
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Boston : By J. Belknap and A. Young, for B. Guild, J. Boyle, B. Larkin, D. West, and E. Larkin, Jun. Sold at their respective bookstores, and by the printers, at their office in State-Street, MDCCXCII. [1792]
- Notes:
- Error in paging: p. 174 misnumbered 274.
- Frontispiece portrait of Trenck engraved by Samuel Hill.
- "Anecdotes of the life of Alexander Schell, who, an officer of the guard, in Glatz, delivered me from prison, on the 26th of December, 1746, and deserted in my company. Written as a supplement to my own history."--p. [383]-401.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 24861
- English Short Title Catalog, W13609.
- OCLC:
- 642769170
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