t was possible. Saxony he had long regarded
as the grand point, were Schweidnitz over: "Recapture Dresden, and
they will have to give us Peace this very Winter!" Daun, also with
reinforcements, followed him to Saxony, as usual; but never quite
arrived, or else found matters settled on arriving;--and will not
require farther mention in this History. He died some three years hence,
age 60; ["5th February, 1766;" "born 24th September, 1705"
(Hormayr _OEster-reichischer Plutarch,_ ii. 80-111).] an honorable,
imperturbable, eupeptic kind of man, sufficiently known to readers by
this time.

Friedrich did not recapture Dresden; far enough from that,--though Peace
came all the same. Hardly a week after our recovery of Schweidnitz,
Stollberg and his Reichsfolk, especially his Austrians, became
unexpectedly pert upon Henri; pressed forward (October 15th), in
overpowering force, into his Posts about Freyberg, Pretschendorf and
that southwestern Reich-ward part: "No more invadings of Bohemia from
you, Monseigneur; no more tormentings of the Reich; here is other work
for you, my Prince!"--and in spite of all Prince Henri could do, drove
him back, clear out of Freyberg; northwestward, towards Hulsen and his
reserves. [_Bericht von dem Angriff so am 15ten October, 1762, van der
Reichs-Armee auf die Kongilich-Preussischen unter dem Prinzen Heinrich
geschehen_ (Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ iii. 362-364). _Ausfuhrlicher Bericht
von der den 15ten October, 1762, bey Brand vorgefallenen Action_ (Ib.
iii. 350-362). Tempelhof, vi. 238.] Giving him, in this manner, what
soldiers call a slap; slap which might have been more considerable, had
those Stollberg people followed it up with emphasis. But they did not;
so alert was Henri. Henri at once rallied beautifully from his slap
(King's reinforcements coming too, as we have said); and, in ten
days' time, without any reinforcement, paid Stollberg and Company by
a stunning blow: BATTLE OF FREYBERG (October 29th),--which must not go
without mention, were it only as Prince Henri's sole Battle, and the
last of this War. Preparatory to which and its sequel, let us glance
again at Duke Ferdinand and the English-French posture,--also for the
last time.

CANNONADE AT AMONEBURG (21st September, 1762). "The controversies
about right or left bank of the Fulda have been settled long since in
Ferdinand's favor; who proceeded next to blockade the various French
strongholds in Hessen; Marburg, Ziegenhayn, especially