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Wehla, of all people on the War-theatre, had been the least expecting disturbance. He is on the remotest western flank; to westward of him nothing but Torgau and the Finck-Wunsch people, from whom is small likelihood of danger: from the eastern what danger can there be? A Letter of Dauns, some days ago, had expressly informed him that, to all appearance, there was none.
Battles there are, behind the Alps, on what we may call the STAGE itself of this Italian War-theatre; but the grand steady battle is that of France and Don Philip, struggling spasmodically, year after year, to get a road through the COULISSES or side-scenes, namely, those Savoy Passes.
Head-quarters change from the altar-steps in Elsnig Church to secular rooms in Torgau. Ziethen has already sped forth on the skirts of Lacy; whole Army follows next day; and, on the War-theatre it is, on the sudden, a total change of scene. Conceivable to readers without the details. Hopes there were of getting back Dresden itself; but that, on closer view, proved unattemptable.
Watching the great War-theatre uncurtain itself in this manner, from Dantzig down to Naples; and what his own share in it shall be: this, much more than his Marriage, I suppose, has occupied his thoughts since that event. Here out of Ruppin, dating six or seven weeks before the march of the Ten Thousand, is a small sign, one among many, of his outlooks in this matter. "RUPPIN. 23d FEBRUARY, 1734.
From and after the Evening of Wednesday, July 9th, it is upon a Siege of Dresden that Friedrich goes; turning the whole war-theatre topsy-turvy; throwing Daun, Loudon, Lacy, everybody OUT, in this strange and sudden manner. One of the finest military feats ever done, thinks Tempelhof.
'A merciful Providence saved the Duke's Serene Person from hurt, say the Stuttgard Gazetteers: which was true, Serene Highness having been inspired to gallop instantly to rearward and landward, leaving an order to somebody, 'Do the best you can! Making his first exit, not yet quite his final, from the War-Theatre, amid such tempests of haha-ing and te-hee-ing.
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