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Prepared by D.R. Thompson

BOOK XX.
FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE
SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS.
25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763.

Chapter I.
FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
There were yet, to the world's surprise and regret, Three Campaigns of
this War; but the Campaign 1760, which we are now upon, was what
produced or rendered possible the other two;--was the crisis of them,
and is now the only one that can require much narrative from us here.
Ill-luck, which, Friedrich complains, had followed him like his shadow,
in a strange and fateful manner, from the day of Kunersdorf and earlier,
does not yet cease its sad company; but, on the contrary, for long
months to come, is more constant than ever, baffling every effort of his
own, and from the distance sending him news of mere disaster and
discomfiture. It is in this Campaign, though not till far on in it, that the
long lane does prove to have a turning, and the Fortune of War recovers
its old impartial form. After which, things visibly languish: and the
hope of ruining such a Friedrich becomes problematic, the effort to do
it slackens also; the very will abating, on the Austrian part, year by year,
as of course the strength of their resources is still more steadily doing.
To the last, Friedrich, the weaker in material resources, needs all his
talent,--all his luck too. But, as the strength, on both sides, is fast
abating,--hard to say on which side faster (Friedrich's talent being
always a FIXED quantity, while all else is fluctuating and
vanishing),--what remains of the once terrible Affair, through
Campaigns Sixth and Seventh, is like a race between spent horses, little
to be said of it in comparison. Campaign 1760 is the last of any
outward eminence or greatness of event. Let us diligently follow that,

and be compendious with the remainder.
Friedrich was always famed for his Marches; but, this Year, they
exceeded all calculation and example; and are still the admiration of
military men. Can there by no method be some distant notion afforded
of them to the general reader? They were the one resource Friedrich
had left, against such overwhelming superiority in numbers; and they
came out like surprises in a theatre,-- unpleasantly surprising to Daun.
Done with such dexterity, rapidity and inexhaustible contrivance and
ingenuity, as overset the schemes of his enemies again and again, and
made his one army equivalent in effect to their three.
Evening of April 25th, Friedrich rose from his Freyberg cantonments;
moved back, that is, northward, a good march; then encamped himself
between Elbe and the Hill-Country; with freer prospect and more
elbow-room for work coming. His left is on Meissen and the Elbe; his
right at a Village called the Katzenhauser, an uncommonly strong camp,
of which one often