History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great . elp mistakes, said he after-wards, when people objected to this and that in his blusterousmendacity of a Book: I had nothing but my poor agitatedmemory to trust to ! A mans memory, when it gets thelength of remembering that he was in the Battle of Sohr whilebodily absent, ought it not to — in fact, to strike work; to stillits agitations altogether, and call halt ? Trenck, some monthsafter, got clambered out of Glatz, by sewers, or I forget how;and leaped, or dropped, from some parapet into the EiverNeisse, — sinking to the loins
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great . elp mistakes, said he after-wards, when people objected to this and that in his blusterousmendacity of a Book: I had nothing but my poor agitatedmemory to trust to ! A mans memory, when it gets thelength of remembering that he was in the Battle of Sohr whilebodily absent, ought it not to — in fact, to strike work; to stillits agitations altogether, and call halt ? Trenck, some monthsafter, got clambered out of Glatz, by sewers, or I forget how;and leaped, or dropped, from some parapet into the EiverNeisse, — sinking to the loins in tough mud, so that he couldnot stir farther. Fouquet let me stand there half a day, 1 Frederic Baron cle Trenck, Memoires, traduits par lui-mcme (Strasburgand Paris, 1789), i. 74-78, 79. BATTLE OF a., a* Austrian,Army fe Prince* (Veissenfilsc. c. frussian ArmyJhanouKn/&esslers Dra a eons BATTLE OF 174 5. a. a, Austrian1 .Army h. Austrian- c. Prussian, d,. BucLdcribroclcs: Cuirass jzrs- e>. &. fnissian, Camg. CHAP XII. BATTLE OF SOHR. 499 30th Sept. 1745. before lie would pick me out again. Rigorous Fouquet,human mercy forbidding, could not let him stand there in per-manence, — as we, better circumstanced, may with advantagetry to do, in time coming! Friedrich lay at Sohr five days; partly for the honor of thething, partly to eat out the Country to perfection. PrinceKarl, from Konigshof, soon fell back to Kbnigsgriitz ; and laymotionless there, nothing but his Tolpatcheries astir. SohrCountry all eaten, Friedrich, in the due Divisions, marchednorthward. Through Trautenau, Schatzlar, his own Division,which was the main one; — and, fencing off the Tolpatchessuccessfully with trouble, brings all his men into Silesia good job of work behind them, surely! Cantons them toright and left of Landshut, about Rohnstock and Hohenfried-berg, hamlets known so well; and leaving the Young Dessauerto command, drives for Berlin (30th Octob
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