studious, hard-headed, well-informed man, and had written an
excellent Book on his subject, is still abundantly clear.
Readers may look in the famous Gibbon's Autobiography,
or still better in the Guichard Book itself, if they
want evidence. The famous Gibbon was drilling and wheeling, very
peaceably indeed, in the Hampshire Militia, in those wild years of
European War. Hampshire Militia served as key, or glossary in a
sort, to this new Book of Guichard's, which Gibbon eagerly bought
and studied; and it, was Guichard, ALIAS Quintus Icilius, who
taught Gibbon all he ever knew of Ancient War, at least all the
teaching he ever had of it, for his renowned DECLINE AND FALL."
[See Gibbon's Works (4to, London, 1796:
Memoirs of my Life and Writings ), i. 97;
and ( Extraits de mes Lectures ), ii. 52-54, of
dates May 14th-26th, 1762,--during which days Gibbon is engaged in
actual reading of the Memoires Militaires;
and already knows the Author by his ALIAS of Quintus Icilius, "a
man of eminent sagacity and insight, who was in the Dutch, and is
now, I believe, in the Prussian service."

It was in the last days of June that Daun, after many litchings,
got into more decisive general movement northward; and slowly but
steadily planted himself at Mark-Lissa in the Lausitz: upon which,
after some survey of the phenomenon, Friedrich got to
Schmottseifen, opposite him, July 10th. Friedrich, on noticing such
stir, had ridden down to Trautenau (June 29th-30th), new Horse-
Artillery attending, to look closer into Daun's affairs;
and, seeing what they were, had thereupon followed. Above a month
before this, Friedrich had detached a considerable force against
the Russians,--General Dohna, of whom in next Chapter:--and both