the Prussians, was as bloody and murderous as it was glorious.

The King's head-quarters were fixed at the convent of Kamentz, where
we rested fourteen days, and the army remained in cantonments.
Prince Charles, instead of following us into Bohemia, had the
imprudence to occupy the plain of Strigau, and we already concluded
his army was beaten. Whoever is well acquainted with tactics, and
the Prussian manoeuvres, will easily judge, without the aid of
calculation or witchcraft, whether a well or ill-disciplined army,
in an open plain, ought to be victorious.

The army hastily left its cantonments, and in twenty-four hours was
in order of battle; and on the 14th of June, eighteen thousand
bodies lay stretched on the plain of Strigau. The allied armies of
Austria and Saxony were totally defeated.

The body guard was on the right; and previous to the attack, the
King said to our squadron, "Prove today, my children, that you are
my body guard, and give no Saxon quarter."

We made three attacks on the cavalry, and two on the infantry.
Nothing could withstand a squadron like this, which for men, horses,
courage, and experience, was assuredly the first in the world. Our
corps alone took seven standards and five pairs of colours, and in
less than an hour the affair was over.

I received a pistol shot in my right hand, my horse was desperately
wounded, and I was obliged to change him on the third charge. The
day after the battle all the officers were rewarded with the Order
of Merit. For my own part, I remained four weeks among the wounded,