Excerpt from The Romance of a Regiment: Being the True and Diverting Story of the Giant Grenadiers of Potsdam, How They Were Caught and Held in Captivity, 1713-1740Scarcely had English Anne ceased to touch for the old King's-evil at the Court of St. James, when a King's-evil of a more virulent type began to show itself at the Court of Berlin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.