perish if THEY must! as Tempelhof remarks. [Tempelhof, iii. 56.]
Upon which Friedrich returned to Landshut; and Fouquet had
peace again.

It was from this Landshut region, where his main cantonments are,
that Friedrich had witnessed all these Inroads, or all except the
very earliest of them; the first Erfurt one, and the Wobersnow-
Sulkowski. He had quitted Breslau in the end of March, and gone to
his cantonments; quickened thither, probably, by a stroke that had
befallen him at Griefenberg, on his Silesian side of the Cordon.
At Griefenberg stood the Battalion Duringshofen, with its Colonel
of the same name,--grenadier people of good quality, perhaps near
1,000 in whole. Which Battalion, General Beck, after long
preliminary study of it, from his Bohemian side,--marching
stealthily on it, one night (March 25-26th), by two or more roads,
with 8,000 men, and much preliminary Croat-work,--contrived to
envelop wholly, and carry off with him, before help could come up.
This, I suppose, had quickened Friedrich's arrival. He has been in
that region ever since,--in Landshut for the last week or two;
and returns thither after the Deville affair.

And at Landshut,--which is the main Pass into Bohemia or from it,
and is the grand observatory-point at present,--he will have to
remain till the first days of July; almost three months.
Watching, and waiting on the tedious Daun, who has the lifting of
the curtain this Year! Daun had come to Jaromirtz, to his
cantonments, "March 24th" (almost simultaneously with Friedrich to
his); expecting Friedrich's Invasion, as usual. Long days sat Daun,
expecting the King in Bohemia:--"There goes he, at last!" thought
Daun, on Prince Henri's late flamy appearance there (BREAKAGE THIRD