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Prepared by D.R. Thompson

BOOK XIX.
FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE
SEVEN-YEARS WAR.
1759-1760.

Chapter I.
PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN.
The posting of the Five Armies this Winter--Five of them in Germany,
not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the
horizon, for their months of rest--is something wonderful, and strikes
the picturesque imagination. Such a Chain of Posts, for length, if for
nothing else! From the centre of Bohemia eastward, Daun's Austrians
are spread all round the western Silesian Border and the southeastern
Saxon; waited on by Prussians, in more or less proximity. Next are the
Reichsfolk; scattered over Thuringen and the Franconian Countries;
fronting partly into Hessen and Duke Ferdinand's outskirts:--the main
body of Duke Ferdinand is far to westward, in Munster Country,
vigilant upon Contades, with the Rhine between. Contades and
Soubise,--adjoining on the Reichsfolk are these Two French Armies:
Soubise's, some 25,000, in Frankfurt- Ems Country, between the Mayn
and the Lahn, with its back to the Rhine; then Contades, onward to
Maes River and the Dutch Borders, with his face to the Rhine,--and
Duke Ferdinand observant of him on the other side. That is the
"CORDON of Posts" or winter-quarters this Year. "From the Giant
Mountains and the Metal Mountains, to the Ocean;--to the mouth of
Rhine," may we not say; "and back again to the Swiss Alps or springs
of Rhine, that Upper-Rhine Country being all either French or Austrian,
and a basis for Soubise?" [Archenholtz, i. 306.] Not to speak of Ocean
itself, and its winged War-Fleets, lonesomely hovering and patrolling;
or of the Americas and Indies beyond!

"This is such a Chain of mutually vigilant Winter-quarters," says
Archenholtz, "as was never drawn in Germany, or in Europe, before."
Chain of about 300,000 fighting men, poured out in that lengthy
manner. Taking their winter siesta there, asleep with one eye open, till
reinforced for new business of death and destruction against Spring.
Pathetic surely, as well as picturesque. "Three Campaigns there have
already been," sighs the peaceable observer: "Three Campaigns, surely
furious enough; Eleven Battles in them," [Stenzel, v. 185. This, I
suppose, would be his enumeration: LOBOSITZ (1756); PRAG,
KOLIN, Hastenbeck, Gross-Jagersdorf, ROSSBACH, Breslau,
LEUTHEN, (1757); Crefeld, ZORNDORF, HOCHKIRCH (1758):
"eleven hitherto in all."] a Prag, a Kolin, Leuthen, Rossbach;--must
there still be others, then, to the misery of poor mankind?" thus sigh
many peaceful persons. Not considering what are, and have been, the
rages, the iniquities, the loud and silent deliriums, the mad blindnesses
and sins of mankind; and what amount, of CALCINING these may
reasonably take. Not calcinable in three Campaigns at all, it would
appear! Four more Campaigns are needed: then there will be innocuous
ashes in quantity; and a result unexpected, and worth marking in
World-History.
It is notably one of Friedrich's fond