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NYGWPB.757.060
26 Sep 1757:21, 22 (766)
The following advices, dated June 22, were received from
Stutgard, the capital of the duke of Wurtenberg . . .
Four thousand out of 6000 of the troops of our most serene
duke, were, on the 24th, delivered to a French commissary,
who immediately reviewed them. Scarce was the review
finished, when the soldiers began to muster, and say aloud,
we are sold. Next morning they deserted at once. . . This
morning they assembled, and having seized some of their
officers, marched out of town, three or four hundred
together, with the musick of the regiments playing before
them, the general having begged of them to go away
peaceably, in God's name. In this manner near 3000 of them
filed off, and the remainder have since been discharged.
Thus our army has melted away almost in a moment.
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