ringing loud,--in jubilation, counter-jubilation and a great
variety of tones,--with the noise of what he had done. A sharp
swift man; and, sure enough, has fluttered the Reichs Volscians in
their Corioli to an unexpected degree." [Seyfarth,
Beylagen, ii. 537-563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG
DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759; Helden-
Geschichte, v. 1033-1039; Tempelhof, ????, et seq.]
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A Colonel Wunsch (Lieutenant-Colonel of the Free Corps WUNSCH)
distinguished himself in this Expedition; The beginning of notably
great things to him in the few following months. Wunsch is a
Wurtemberger by birth; has been in many services, always in
subaltern posts, and, this year, will testify strangely how worthy
he was of the higher. What a Year, this of 1759, to stout old
Wunsch! In the Spring, here has he just seen his poor son,
Lieutenant Wunsch, perish in one of these scuffles; in Autumn, he
will see himself a General, shining suddenly bright, to his King
and to all the world; before Winter, he will be Prisoner to
Austria, and eclipsed for the rest of this war!--Kleist, of the
GREEN HUSSARS, also made a figure here; and onwards rapidly ever
higher; to the top of renown in his business:--fallen heir to
Mayer's place, as it were. A Note says: "Poor Mayer of the Free
Corps does not ride with the Prince on this occasion.
Mayer, dangerously worn down with the hard services of last Year,
and himself a man of too sleepless temper, caught a fever in the
New-year time; and died within few days: burnt away before his
time; much regretted by his Brethren of the Army, and some few
others. Gone in this way; with a high career just opening on him at