Triple posts in this garrison town, devices to flood instantly the whole under fifteen feet of water from the river havel, are but items in the system of protection.
"The Secrets of the German War Office"
Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
But the chief seat of contumacy seemed to be among the Quitzows, Putlitzes, above spoken of; big Squires in the district they call the Priegnitz, in the Country of the sluggish havel River, northwest from Berlin a fifty or forty miles.
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
It had been a poor place, situated betwixt the havel and a swamp; the King had made it into an architectural camp; no civilian could carry a sword there, not even the minister of state.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II."
Gustav Freytag
