nurse in the Netherlands, but his nephew and heir) may cease
gathering Magazines, in those Lausitz and Metal-Mountain parts:
happy could they give wings to those already gathered!
Magazines, for Austrian service, are clearly not the things wanted
there. One does not burn one's Magazines till the last extremity;
but wings they have none; and such is the enigmatic velocity of
those Prussian movements, one seldom has time even to burn them, in
the last crisis of catastrophe! Considerable portions of that
provender fell into the Prussian throat; as much as "three months'
provision for the whole Army," count they,--adding to those
Frontier sundries the really important Magazine which they seized
at Jung-Bunzlau farther in. [ Helden-Geschichte, iv. 6-13;
&c.] It is one among their many greater advantages from this
surprisal of the enemy, and sudden topsy-turvying of his plans.
Browne and Konigseck have to retire on Prag at their swiftest;
looking to more important results than Magazines.

It is Friedrich's old plan. Long since, in 1744, we saw a march of
this kind, Three Columns rushing with simultaneous rapidity on
Prag; and need not repeat the particulars on this occasion.
Here are some Notes on the subject, which will sufficiently bring
it home to readers:--

"The Three Columns were, for a part of the way, Four; the King's
being, at first, in two branches, till they united again, on the
other side of the Hills. For the King," what is to be noted, "had
shot out, three weeks before, a small preliminary branch, under
Moritz of Dessau; who marched, well westward, by Eger (starting
from Chemnitz in Saxony); and had some tussling with our poor old
friend Duke d'Ahremberg, Browne's subordinate in those parts.