mountain woodlands, dumb trees, damp brown leaves. Maillebois and
Saxe, after survey, shoot leftwards to Eger; draw food and
reinforcement from the Garrison there. They do get through the
Forest, at one Pass, the Pass nearest Eger;--but find Prince Karl
and the Grand-Duke ranked to receive them on the other side.
'Plunge home upon Prince Karl and the Grand-Duke; beat them, with
your Broglio to help in the rear?' That possibly was Friedrich's
thought as he watched [now home at Berlin again] the
contemporaneous Theatre of War.

"But that was not the Maillebois-Broglio method;--nay, it is said
Maillebois was privately forbidden 'to run risks.' Broglio, with
his stretched-out hand (12,000 some count him, and indeed it is no
matter), sits quiet at Toplitz, far too oblique: 'Come then, come,
O Maillebois!' Maillebois,--manoeuvring Prince Karl aside, or
Hunger doing it for him,--did once push forward Prag-ward, by the
Pass of Caaden; which is very oblique to Toplitz. By the Pass of
Caaden,--down the Eger River, through those Mountains of the Circle
of Saatz, past a Castle of Ellenbogen, key of the same;--and 'Could
have done it [he said always after], had it not been for Comte de
Saxe!' Undeniable it is, Saxe, as vanguard, took that Castle of
Ellenbogen; and, time being so precious, gave the Tolpatchery
dismissal on parole. Undeniable, too, the Tolpatchery, careless of
parole, beset Caaden Village thereupon, 4,000 strong; cut off our
foreposts, at Caaden Village; and-- In short, we had to retire from
those parts; and prove an Army of Redemption that could not redeem
at all!

"Maillebois and Saxe wend sulkily down the Naab Valley (having
lost, say 15,000, not by fighting, but by mud and hardship);