. Battles of the nineteenth century . Elbe, and thehearts of the Prussians jumped for joy. It seemedto them as if God had already delivered theAustrians into their hands, as Cromwell avowedof the Scots when they left their high groundat Dunbar and descended to meet his Iron-sides on the plain. After gleaning this priceless 78 battlp:s of the nineteenth century. intelligence, von Norman had to ride for his squadron of Austrian cavalry made a dash tocatch him, but he rode like an English fox-hunter, and only left behind him, as a souvenirof his audacious visit to the enemys lines, a parto
. Battles of the nineteenth century . Elbe, and thehearts of the Prussians jumped for joy. It seemedto them as if God had already delivered theAustrians into their hands, as Cromwell avowedof the Scots when they left their high groundat Dunbar and descended to meet his Iron-sides on the plain. After gleaning this priceless 78 battlp:s of the nineteenth century. intelligence, von Norman had to ride for his squadron of Austrian cavalry made a dash tocatch him, but he rode like an English fox-hunter, and only left behind him, as a souvenirof his audacious visit to the enemys lines, a partof his tunic which had been carried away by anAustrian lance-thrust. This, then, was the news which Voigts-Rhetzhad brought to Moltke and the King at Gitschin,and then the situation underwent an immediateand final change. It was resolved to assail theAustrian position early on the morrow^ with thewhole force of the united Prussian armies, andanother message to this efiFect, cancelling allprevious ones, as a codicil does a will, was at. Prussia midnight despatched to the Crown Prince onone hand and Herwarth on the other, informingthem of the altered state of things, and desiringthem on the morrow to assail the flanks of theAustrians as fast and furiously as ever they could ;while the Red Prince would apply his battering-rams to their elevated and strongly entrenchedcentre. This urgent message was entrusted toColonel von Finckenstein, who, after a very darkand dangerous ride of twenty miles, reached theCrown Princes quarters about four oclock onthe morning of the 3rd July. That fateful morning was a very wet and raw-one, pretty similar to that which, after a rainynight, had dawned upon the English at before midnight the troops had all been inmotion to the front. The moon occasionallyblinked out, but was mostly hidden behindclouds, and then could be distinctly seen thecleca\-ing bivouac fires in the places v/hich had been occupied by the troops along the road fro
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