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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 REICHENBACH AND GORLITZ; TO DAUN'S ASTONISHMENT. FELDMARSCHALL DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY TRY SOME SIEGE OF DRESDEN (9th-16th November). |