Word: prenzlau
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...nation fell upon hard days, for the bugle of Napoleon was loud in the land. What Russia and Austria could not do the Emperor of France seemed all too easily able to bring about. The Prussian flag lay furled as the world stared on at Prenzlau, Ratkau and Auerstadt. A handful of men stormed over Europe shouting "The Old Guard neither dies nor surrenders," and Prussia shivered in the Baltic fogs. In Prussia at this time dwelt an old man, who later gave his name to a fine boot, who was to see them do both...
Last June in Hamburg the Falke's crew learned without particular interest that their ship had changed owners. Not the Hamburg Kauffahrtei Gesellschaft, to which they had belonged for so many years, but a firm known as Felix Prenzlau & Co. would pay their wages in future. In the freight trade one Captain is much like another. They were not excited when their new master, one Capt. Tipplitt, came aboard. But Capt. Tipplitt turned out to be different...
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