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'They are ordering the line for the attack, said Saxon, who had ridden up during our conversation. 'Donnerblitz! Who ever saw a camp so exposed to an onfall? Oh for twelve hundred good horse for an hour of Wessenburg's Pandours! Would I not trample them down until their camp was like a field of young corn after a hail-storm! 'May not our horse advance? I asked.
Trenck did not live long with his lady. She was pregnant, and he took her to hunt with him in a marsh: she returned ill, and died without leaving him an heir. Having no opportunity to indulge his warlike inclination, because of the general peace, he conceived the project of extirpating the Sclavonian banditti. Trenck, to execute this enterprise, employed his own pandours.
And there, about Gewitsch, siege or no siege, Daun sits down again; pretty much immovable, through the five weeks of bombardment; and, except that Loudon and the Light Horse are very diligent to do a mischief, "attempting our convoys, more than once, to no purpose, and alarming some of our outposts almost every night, but every night beaten off," does, in a manner, nothing; sits quiet, behind his impenetrable veil of Pandours, and lets the bombardment take its course.
Thus died this most extraordinary man, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, to whom nature had denied none of her gifts; who had been the scourge of Bavaria; the terror of France; and who had, with his supposed contemptible pandours, taken above six thousand Prussian prisoners. He lived a tyrant and enemy of men, and died a sanctified impostor.
At the "Pass of Jenkowitz," short way from Bautzen, Pandours attempt our baggage; need to be battered off, and again off: which apprises Friedrich that Daun's whole Army is ahead in the neighborhood somewhere.
This is the Torgau feature, feature of human nature, soldiering under difficulties: The multitudinous Pandours, if I remember, made a rush into the Suburbs, in their usual vociferous way; but were met by the 700 silent Prussians, silent except through their fire-arms and field-pieces, in so eloquent a style as soon convinced the Pandour mind, and sent it travelling again.
We heard firing as we marched, and the foragers on all sides were skirmishing with the enemy. A lieutenant and forty horse joined me; yet, with this reinforcement, I durst not return to the camp, because I learned we were in danger from more than eight hundred pandours and hussars, who were in the plain.
'Upstairs is his Excellency asleep; Excellency's room is to right, do you remember; or to left' 'Pshaw, we shall find it! The Pandours mount; find a bedroom, break it open, some fifteen or sixteen of them, and one who knows a little French; come crowding forward: to the horror and terror of the poor inhabitant. 'QUE VOULEZ-VOUS DONC? 'His Excellency Valori! 'Well, no violence; I am your prisoner: let me dress! answers the supposed Excellency, and contrives to secrete portfolios, and tear or make away with papers.
"Swoop in, and produce the catastrophe? "Qu'aux Anglais, aux Pandours, a ce peuple insolent, "J'aille donner la discipline? "Tame to sobriety those English, those Pandours, and obstreperous people? "Mais examinez mieux ma mine; "Examine the look of me better; "Je ne suis pas assez mechant! "I have not surliness euough.
"From whence come you?" said he sternly. "From Glatz, where the pandours carried me as a prisoner, and delivered me to Colonel Trenck." "You were then a prisoner, and were released without ransom?" "Colonel Trenck laughed merrily when his pandours delivered me to him, and declared I was the King of Prussia." "Colonel Trenck knows you?" "Sire, I saw him often in my father's house."
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