. Battles of the nineteenth century . ne in all his polyglot do-minions in respect of that ancient valour andother chivalrous qualities which had caused thisgallant people to be called the ;h of theEast. Finer horsemen than the Hungariansexisted in no army in all the world ; and in this 76 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. campaign, as in every other in which they hadever been engaged, the Austrians were particu-larly strong in cavalry. But, on the other hand,the Prussians were known to be armed with thelately-invented breech-loading needle-gun, whilethe Austrians still clung to the
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ne in all his polyglot do-minions in respect of that ancient valour andother chivalrous qualities which had caused thisgallant people to be called the ;h of theEast. Finer horsemen than the Hungariansexisted in no army in all the world ; and in this 76 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. campaign, as in every other in which they hadever been engaged, the Austrians were particu-larly strong in cavalry. But, on the other hand,the Prussians were known to be armed with thelately-invented breech-loading needle-gun, whilethe Austrians still clung to the older-fashionedmuzzle-loader, and professed to make light oftheir opponents new-fangled rifle. They were thought. It appears that we have over 15,000prisoners, while the loss on the Austrian side isstill greater in dead and wounded, being no lessthan 20,000. Two of the Army Corps are utterlyscattered, and some of the regiments are wipedout to the last man. I have, indeed, up till nowseen more Austrian prisoners than major von ungar came spurring in with a great piece of news {p. 77 soon to be shown convincingl}- which was thebetter weapon. It was not till June 30th that King Williamand his paladins, Moltke, Bismarck, and vonRoon, left Berlin by rail for the seat of had scorned to witness the preliminaryheats, so to speak, and only wanted to be presentat the grand final. On July 2nd, after reachingGitschin, which was near the headquarters of theRed Prince, Bismarck wrote to his wife : Justarrived from Sichrow. The field of battle thereis still covered with corpses, horses, and victories (so far) are greater than we On the night of the same day (2nd July)King William, now in his seventieth year, hadretired to rest in a little room of the * GoldenLion, which overlooks the market-place ofGitschin — a quaint little old town nestlingamong the hills of Northern Bohemia, on thesouthern side of the Giant Mountains. Weariedout with the fatigues of t
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