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Updated: June 22, 2025
"The King's broken Army on one side of us," calculates Daun; "Prince Henri's on the other; incommunicative they; reduced to isolation, powerless either or both of them against such odds. They shall wait there, please Heaven, till Saxony be quite finished. Zweibruck, and our Detachments and Maguires, let them finish Saxony, while Soltikof keeps the King busy.
Friedrich got the news of Zullichau next day, July 24th; and instantly made ready. The case is critical; especially this Haddick-Loudon part of it: add 30 or 36,000 Austrians to Soltikof, how is he then to be dealt with? A case stringently pressing: and the resources for it few and scattered.
The poor Magistrates rushed distractedly about; wrung out moneys to the last drop; moneys, and in the end plate from those that had it; went in tearful deputation to General Soltikof, a severe proud kind of man, capable perhaps of being flattered, who usually locked them up instead.
Soltikof understands the congratulations very well; but as to that of trampling out, snorts an indignant negative: 'Nay, you, why don't you try it? Surely it is more your business than my Imperial Mistress's or mine. We have wrenched two victories from him this season.
I fall back into the Trebnitz Bog-Country, on my own right bank here, and look out for my own safety." "Patience, your noble Excellenz," answer they always; "oh, patience yet a little! Oh, be patient yet a day or two: he skips about at such a rate!" Montalembert has to be suasive as the Muses and the Sirens. Soltikof gloomily consents to another day or two.
Day is sinking; we find we have lost, in killed, wounded and prisoners, some 6,000 men. "About sunset," flaming July sun going down among the moorlands on such a scene, Wedell gives it up; retires slowly towards Kay Bridge. Slowly; not chased, or molested; Soltikof too glad to be rid of him. Soltikof's one aim is, and was, towards Crossen; towards Austrian Junction, and something to live upon.
And privately Soltikof was heard to say, "Let me fight but another such Victory, and I may go to Petersburg with the news of it myself, with the staff in my hand."
Haddick has been most industrious, 'guarding the Russian flank, standing between the King and it, during that Soltikof march to Mullrose, to Lieberose; but that once done, and the King settled at Waldau, Haddick was ordered to Saxony, against Wunsch and Finck: and readers know already what he made of these Two in the 'Action at Korbitz, September 21st, and shall hear soon what befell Haddick himself in consequence."
Which was far from a right reading of Soltikof; the fact being that Soltikof, in long columns and divisions, beginning with his right wing, was all on march since daybreak; what Wedell took for Soltikof's "left wing" being Soltikof's rear-guard and baggage, waiting till the roads cleared. This is what Wedell cannot suffer, cost what it may. Wedell's orders were, in such case, Attack the Russians.
Without metaphor, Soltikof has shot away all his present ammunition, his staff of bread is quite precarious in these parts; and Soltikof thinks always, 'Is it my business, then, or is it yours?
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