Excerpt from The Life of Baron Frederick Trenck: Containing His Adventures, His Cruel and Excessive Sufferings During Ten Years' Imprisonment at the Fortress of Magdeburg, by Command of the Late King Prussia; Also, Anecdotes, Historical, Political, and Personal My ancestors, both of the male and female line, are famous in the chronicles of the North, among the ancient Teutonic knights, who conquered Courland, Prussia, and Livonia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.