Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
page 31 of 430 (07%)
several places); see Hormayr, ? Lichtenstein.] The villages, the
farmsteads, are occupied; every rising ground especially has its
battery,--Homoly Berg, Tabor Berg, "Mount of Tabor;" say KNOLL of
Tabor (nothing like so high as Battersea Rise, hardly even as
Constitution Hill), though scriptural Zisca would make a Mount of
it;--these, and other BERGS of the like type.

That is the Austrian Battle Order (as it stood about 9, though it
had still to change a little, as we shall see): their first line,
straight or nearly so, looking northward, stands on the brow of the
Zisca Slope; their second and their third, singularly like it, at
the due distances behind;--in the intervals, their tents, which
stand scattered, in groups wide apart, in the ample interior to
southward. The cavalry is on both wings; left wing, behind that
Moldau Chasm, cannot attack nor be attacked,--except it were on
hippogriffs, and its enemy on the like, capable of fighting in the
air, overhead of these Belvedere Pleasure-grounds: perhaps Prince
Karl will remedy this oversight; fruit of close following of the
orthodox practice? Prince Karl, supreme Chief, commands on the left
wing; Browne on the right, where he can attack or be attacked, NOT
on hippogriffs. As we shall see, and others will! Light horse, in
any quantity, hang scattered on all outskirts. With foot, with
cannon batteries, with horse, light or heavy, they cover in long
broad flood the whole of that Zisca Slope, to near where it ceases,
and the ground to eastward begins perceptibly to rise again.

In this latter quarter, Zisca Slope, now nearly ended, begins to
get very swampy in parts; on the eastern border of the Austrian
Camp, at Kyge, Hostawitz, and beyond it southward, about Sterbohol
and Michelup, there are many little lakelets; artificial fish-
DigitalOcean Referral Badge