lties, pushes up accordingly; gets into
his sheep-track; finds, in the steeper part of this track, that horses
cannot draw his cannon; sets his men to do it; pulls and pushes, he
and they, with a right will;--sees over his left shoulder, at a certain
point, the ranked Austrians waiting for him behind their cannon (which
must have been an interesting glimpse of scenery for some moments); tugs
along, till he is at a point for planting his cannon; and then, under
help of these, rushes forward,--in two parts, perhaps in three, but with
one impetus in all,--to seize the Austrian fruit set before him.
Surely, if a precious, a very prickly Pomegranate, to clutch hold of
on different sides, after such a climb! The Austrians make stiff fight;
have abatis, multiplex defences; and Mollendorf has a furious wrestle
with this last remnant, holding out wonderfully,--till at length the
abatis itself catches fire, in the musketry, and they have to surrender.
This must be about noon, as I collect: and Feldmarschall Daun himself
now orders everybody to fall back. And the tug of fight is over;--though
Friedrich's scenic effects did not cease; and in particular his big
battery raged till 5 in the afternoon, the more to confirm Daun's
rearward resolutions and quicken his motions. On fall of night, Daun,
everybody having had his orders, and been making his preparations for
six hours past, ebbed totally away; in perfect order, bag and baggage.
Well away to southward; and left Friedrich quit of him. [Tempelhof. vi.
100-115: compare _Bericht von der bey Leutmannsdorf den 21sten Julius
1762 vorgefallenen Action_ (Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ iii. 302-308);
_Anderweiter Bericht von der &c._ (ib. 308-314); Archenholtz, &c. &c.]

Quit of Daun forevermore, as it turned out. Plainly free, at any rate,
to begin upon Schweidnitz, whenever he sees good. Of the behavior of
Wied, Mollendorf, and their people, indeed of the Prussians one and all,
what can be said, but that it was worthy of their Captain and of the
Plannings he had made? Which is saying a great deal. "We got above 14
big guns," report they; "above 1,000 prisoners, and perhaps twice as
many that deserted to us in the days following." Czernichef was full of
admiration at the day's work: he marched early next morning,--I trust
with lasting gratitude on the part of an obliged Friedrich.

Some three weeks before this of Burkersdorf, Duke Ferdinand, near a
place called Wilhelmsthal, in the neighborhood o