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The Course of the Danish War -- Suspension of Hostilities -- War Renewed -- My Husband Ordered Off Just on the Eve of My Confinement -- The Parting -- My Confinement Occurs Simultaneously with My Husband's Departure -- A Dead Child -- The Mother in Deadly Peril -- Frederick's Letters from the Seat of War -- Cousin Godfrey and the Alliance Between Austria and Prussia -- My Recovery -- Anxiety and Relapse -- Return of My Husband.
From the theatre of war came good tidings. The allies won battle after battle. Immediately after the first combats the Danes were forced to abandon the entire Danewerk. Schleswig and Jutland up to Limfjord were occupied by our troops, and the enemy only maintained himself in the lines at Düppel and at Alsen.