could not fairly halt again and face about till at Liebenau, twenty
miles off, where they found some defile or difficult bit of ground
fit for them; and this too proved capable of yielding pause for a
few hours only. For Schwerin, with his Silesian Column, was coming
up from the northeast, threatening Konigseck on flank and rear:
Konigseck could only tighten his straps a little at this Liebenau,
and again get under way; and making vain attempts to hinder the
junction of Schwerin and Bevern, to defend the Jung-Bunzlau
Magazine, or do any good in those parts, except to detain the
Schwerin-Bevern people certain hours (I think, one day in all), had
nothing for it but to gird himself together, and retreat on Prag
and the Ziscaberg, where his friends now were.

The Austrian force at Reichenberg was 20,000; would have been 30
and odd thousands, had Maguire come up (as he might have done, had
not the appearances alarmed him too much); Bevern, minus the
Detachment sent against Maguire, was but 15,000 in fight; and he
has quite burst the Austrians away, who had plugged his road for
him in such force: is it not a comfortable little victory, glorious
in its sort; and a good omen for the bigger things that are coming?
Bevern marched composedly on, after this inspiriting tussle,
through Liebenau and what defiles there were; April 24th, at
Turnau, he falls into the Schwerin Column; incorporates himself
therewith, and, as subordinate constituent part, accompanies
Schwerin thenceforth.

3. "Column THIRD was Schwerin's, out of Schlesien; counted to be
32,000 foot, 12,000 horse. Schwerin, gathering himself, from Glatz
and the northerly country, at Landshut,--very careless, he, of the
pleasant Hills, and fine scattered peaks of the Giant Mountains