ve this Bridge from us at any cost,' thinks Ferdinand; 'and at any
cost they shall not!' And, in the end, orders Granby forward in room of
Zastrow, who has had some eight hours of it now; and rides home to look
after his main quarters.

"It was about 4 in the afternoon when Granby and his English came into
the fire; and I rather think the French onslaught was, if anything, more
furious than ever:--Despair striding visibly forward on it, or something
too like Despair. Amoneburg they had battered to pieces, Wall and
Schloss, so that the 500 had to ground arms: but not an inch of way had
they made upon the Bridge, nor were like to make. Granby continued on
the old plan, plying all his diligences and artilleries; needing them
all. Fierce work to a degree: '200 of you go down on wings' (in an hour
about 100 will come back)! In English Families you will still hear some
vague memory of Amoneburg, How we had built walls of the dead, and
fired from behind them,--French more and more furious, we more and more
obstinate. Granby had still four hours of it; sunset, twilight, dusk;
about 8, the French, in what spirits I can guess, ceased, and went their
ways. Bridge impossible; game up. They had lost, by their own account,
1,100 killed and wounded; Ferdinand probably not fewer." [Mauvillon, ii.
251; _Helden-Geschichte,_ vii. 432-439.]

And in this loud peal, what none could yet know, the French-English part
of the Seven-Years War had ended. The French attempted nothing farther;
hutted themselves where they were, and waited in the pouring rains:
Ferdinand also hutted himself, in guard of the Ohm; while his people
plied their Siege-batteries on Cassel, on Ziegenhayn, cannonading their
best in the bad weather;--took Cassel, did not quite take Ziegenhayn,
had it been of moment;--and for above six weeks coming (till November
7th-14th [Preliminaries of Peace SIGNED, "Paris, November 3d;" known
to French Generals "November 7th;" not, OFFICIALLY, to Ferdinand till
"November 14th" (Mauvillon, ii. 257).]), nothing more but skirmishings
and small scuffles, not worth a word from us, fell out between the Two
Parties there. That Cannonade of the Brucken-Muhle had been finis.

For supreme Bute, careless of the good news coming in on him from West
and from East, or even rather embarrassed by them, had some time ago
started decisively upon the Peace Negotiation. "September 5th,"
three weeks before that of Amoneburg, "the Duke of Bedford, Bute's
Ple