. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ; altogether 248,350men. The supreme command of all the troops stationed in Silesia theking connnitted to Blücher, now seventy-one years of age. It isScharnhorsts great merit to have «i-iven the decision in his faAoragainst Ivalkreuth and Tauenzien, wiio were also brought intoquestion for this position. Notwithstanding all lack on liis jiart oftheoretical cultivation, in spite even of trying defects in his school-learning, yet a peculiar combination of most important qualificationshad made him the first
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ; altogether 248,350men. The supreme command of all the troops stationed in Silesia theking connnitted to Blücher, now seventy-one years of age. It isScharnhorsts great merit to have «i-iven the decision in his faAoragainst Ivalkreuth and Tauenzien, wiio were also brought intoquestion for this position. Notwithstanding all lack on liis jiart oftheoretical cultivation, in spite even of trying defects in his school-learning, yet a peculiar combination of most important qualificationshad made him the first commander-in-chief in this war,— the concep-tion of relations on a great scale, the perception of the critical point, 232 TUE WAR OF LIBETiATION OF ISIS. an assurance of victory which was not to be shaken by any disaster,no slirinking from any personal responsibility, and freedom from allfear of men, and, added to this, vast hatred and wrath against Napo-leon and every French tool. Tliat which was wanting in Blücher(Fig. 48) found its admirable complement in the two counsellors at. Fig. 48. — Blücher. From the portrait painted and engraved by F. Fleisclimann, in London, in June, 1814. his side, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Under Blüehers commandwas placed the Russian corps of Wintzingerode; and for this reasonYork, to whom the king had, as proof of his satisfaction and unim-paired confidence, subordinated Bülow and Borstell, was himself putunder the command of Wittgenstein. Not in vain had the king issued the appeal to his people. It wasa moving spectacle, the manner in which this Prussian population PATBIOTISM IN PRUSSIA. 233 not merely took on themselves all the severe Luraens which thestate in its poverty was obliged to impose on them, but also pressedforward to offer cheerfully on the altar of patriotism whatever theywere able to give. He who could not bear arms himself, assisted,so far as his means went, in equijiping volunteers; he who had nomoney offered his labo
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