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Meanwhile the great blow was struck by Napoleon at the allied left. There the Austrian wing was sundered from the main force by the difficult defile of Plauen; and it was crushed by one of the Emperor's most brilliant combinations.
Will at least protect Dresden from recapture; and wait here, in the interim; carting his provision out of Bohemia, which is a rough business, with Elbe frozen, and the passes in such a choked wintry state. Daun holds Dresden and the Dell of Plauen; but Saxony, to the world's amazement, he is as far as ever from holding.
These, at any rate, are come; beds for them all ready; and now the cannonading can begin in right earnest. As it does with a vengeance. To Mitchell, and perhaps others, 'the King of Prussia says He will now be master of the Town in a few days. Many of the wretched inhabitants had fled to our camp: "Let them lodge in Plauen, no fighting there, quiet artificial water expanses there instead."
His "ricochet-battery," which is good against Maguire's people, innocent to Dresden, he continued for three days more; while gathering his furnitures about Plauen Country, making his arrangements at Meissen; did not march till the night of June 29th.
Daun retreated by the right side of the river, Lacy by the left; and the two forces rejoined at Dresden, and took up their position, as usual, in the Plauen stronghold; while Frederick, after finishing the clearance of all Saxony save the capital, took up his winter quarters at Leipzig on the 6th of December.
"If you beat us, Excellency Feldmarschall, yes; but till then !" Friedrich draws out in battalia; Leo in wild ragged state and temper, VERSUS Bos in the reverse: "Come on; then!" Rhinoceros Bos, though in a high frame of mind, dare not, on cool survey; but retires behind the Plauen Chasm again.
Roth, who was American vice-consul at Plauen, Saxony, until we entered the war, has written some of the most enlightening and brilliant articles that have appeared on the internal conditions of any of the belligerent countries since August, 1914. He remained at his post until the last moment and then left Germany a physical wreck from malnutrition.
His force, though smaller, held the inner line and spread over some three miles; while the concave front of the allies extended over double that space, and their left wing was separated from the centre by the stream and defile of Plauen. From his inner position he could therefore readily throw an overpowering mass on any part of their attenuated array. He prepared to do so against their wings.
"Lacy has left ten thousand men in Dresden, sire, and with the rest of his force has joined the Confederate army at Plauen." "Just what I wished," the king said. "It has saved me a long march, and we will now go straight to Dresden."
"It is a German cruiser -Plauen class -and coming up in a hurry at better than twenty knots," exclaimed McClure, as the outline of the ship was implanted clean-cut against the horizon dead ahead of the Dewey. His hand on the firing valve, the submarine commander waited only until the bow of the German warship showed on the range glass of the periscope, and then released a torpedo.
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