urrenberg, PLUS 1,217 prisoners and one Prince among them, and one
cannon: a Hulsen who has actually given a kind of beating to the
Reichsfolk and Austrians, though they were 30,000 to his 10,000, and had
counted on making a new Maxen of it." [Archenholts, ii. 114; BERICHT
VON DER OM 20 AUGUST 1780 BEY STREHLA VORGEFALLONEN ACTION (Seyfarth,
_Beylagen,_ ii. 703-719).] Friedrich writes a glad laudatory Letter
to Hulsen: "Right, so; give them more of that when they apply next!"
[Letter in SCHONING, ii. 396, "Hermsdorf" (Hermannsdorf), "27th August,
1760."]

This is a bit of sunshine to the Royal mind, dark enough otherwise.
Had Friedrich got done here, right fast would he fly to the relief of
Hulsen, and recovery of Saxony. Hope, in good moments, says, "Hulsen
will be able to hold out till then!" Fear answers, "No, he cannot,
unless you get done here extremely soon!"--The Russian Event, full of
painful anxiety to Friedrich, was a new Siege of Colberg. That is the
sad fact; which, since the middle of August, has been becoming visibly
certain.

SECOND SIEGE OF COLBERG, AUGUST 26th. "Under siege again, that poor
Place; and this time the Russians seem to have made a vow that take it
they will. Siege by land and by sea; land-troops direct from Petersburg,
15,000 in all (8,000 of them came by ship), with endless artillery; and
near 40 Russian and Swedish ships-of-war, big and little, blackening the
waters of poor Colberg. August 26th [the day before Friedrich's writing
as above], they have got all things adjusted,--the land-troops covered
by redoubts to rearward, ships moored in their battering-places;--and
begin such a bombardment and firing of red-hot balls upon Colberg as was
rarely seen. To which, one can only hope old Heyde will set a face of
gray-steel character, as usual; and prove a difficult article to deal
with, till one get some relief contrived for him. [Archenholtz, ii. 116:
in _Helden-Geschichte,_ (vi.73-83), "TAGEBUCH of Siege, 26th August-18th
September," and other details.]

Chapter IV.--DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS.

In spite of Friedrich's forebodings, an extraordinary recoil, in all
Anti-Friedrich affairs, ensued upon Liegnitz; everything taking the
backward course, from which it hardly recovered, or indeed did not
recover at all, during the rest of this Campaign. Details on the
subsequent Daun-Friedrich movements--which went all aback for Daun, Daun
driven into the Hills ag