IS TO BE HOPED
FROM IT FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, IF PRAG GO AMISS. PHENOMENA OF PRAG
SIEGE:--PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED.
Chapter IV.--BATTLE OF KOLIN. THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR
AUSTRIA.
Chapter V.--FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON.
PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT
BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE
FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE
THAN EVER.
Chapter VI.--DEATH OF WINTERFELD.
Chapter VII.--FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME. I.
FRIEDRICH'S MARCH TO ERFURT FROM DRESDEN--(31st August-13th September,
1757). II. THE SOUBISE HILDBURGHAUSEN PEOPLE TAKE INTO THE HILLS;
FRIEDRICH IN ERFURT NEIGHBORHOOD, HANGING ON, WEEK AFTER WEEK, IN AN
AGONY OF INACTION (13th September-10th October). LAMENTATION-PSALMS OF
FRIEDRICH. III. RUMOR OF AN INROAD ON BERLIN SUDDENLY SETS FRIEDRICH ON
MARCH THITHER: INROAD TAKES EFFECT,--WITH IMPORTANT RESULTS, CHIEFLY IN A
LEFT-HAND FORM. SCENE AT REGENSBURG IN THE INTERIM.
BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED)--SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.
Chapter VIII.--BATTLE OF ROSSBACH. CATASTROPHE OF DAUPHINESS (Saturday,
5th November, 1757).
Chapter IX.--FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA. FRIEDRICH'S SPEECH TO HIS
GENERALS (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From
Chapter X.--BATTLE OF LEUTHEN.
Chapter XI.--WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS. OF THE ENGLISH
SUBSIDY. FRIEDRICH, AS INDEED PITT'S PEOPLE AND OTHERS HAVE DONE, TAKES
THE FIELD UNCOMMONLY EARLY: FRIEDRICH GOES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ,
SCHWEIDNITZ, AS THE PREFACE TO WHATEVER HIS CAMPAIGN MAY BE.
Chapter XII.--SIEGE OF OLMUTZ.
Chapter XIII.--BATTLE OF ZORNDORF. THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR OVER
AGAIN,--THAT IS TO SAY, FRIEDRICH AT HAND-GRIPS WITH FERMOR AND HIS
RUSSIANS (25TH AUGUST, 1758).
Chapter XIV.--BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH. DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY INVADE
SAXONY, IN FRIEDRICH'S ABSENCE. FRIEDRICH INTERVENING, DAUN DRAWS BACK;
INTRENCHES HIMSELF IN NEIGHBORHOOD TO DRESDEN AND PIRNA; FRIEDRICH
FOLLOWING HIM. FOUR ARMIES STANDING THERE, IN DEAD-LOCK, FOR A MONTH;
WITH ISSUE, A FLANK-MARCH ON THE PART OF FRIEDRICH'S ARMY, WHICH HALTS
AT HOCH WHAT ACTUALLY BEFELL AT HOCHKIRCH (Saturday, 14th October,
1758). SEQUEL OF HOCHKIRCH; THE CAMPAIGN ENDS IN A WAY SURPRISING TO AN
ATTENTIVE PUBLIC (22d October-20th November, 1758). FRIEDRICH MARCHES,
ENIGMATICALLY, NOT ON GLOGAU, BUT ON
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