Identifier: historyoffriedriv5v6carl (find matches)
Title: History of Friedrich 2 of Prussia, called Frederick the Great
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786
Publisher: London Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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itnot to—in fact, to strike work; to still its agitations altogether,and call halt ? Trenck, some months after, got clambered outof Glatz, by sewers, or I forget how ; and leaped, or dropped,from some parapet into the River Neisse,—sinking to the loinsin tough mud, so that he could not stir farther. Fouquet letme stand there half a day, before he would pick me out again.Rigorous Fouquet, human mercy forbidding, could not let himstand there in permanence,—as we, better circumstanced, maywith advantage try to do, in time coming! Friedrich lay at Sohr five days ; partly for the honour ofthe thing, partly to eat-out the Country to perfection. PrinceKarl, from Konigshof, soon fell back to Konigsgratz ; and laymotionless there, nothing but his Tolpatcheries astir. SohrCountry all eaten, Friedrich, in the due Divisions, marchednorthward. Through Trautenau, Schatzlar, his own Division, 5 Frederic Baron de Trenck, Memoires, traduits par lui-meme (Strasburg andParis, 1789), i. 74-7S, 79.
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■ Chap. xii. BATTLE OF SOHR. 95 30th Sept. 1745. which was the main one ;—and, fencing-off the Tolpatchessuccessfully with trouble, brings all his men into Silesia again.A 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 October),—rapidly, ashis wont is. Prince Karl has split-up his force at Konigsgratz;means, one cannot doubt, to go into winter-quarters. If hethink of invading, across that eaten Country and those badMountains,—well, our troops can all be got together in six-hours time. At Trautenau, a week after Sohr, Friedrich had at last re-ceived the English ratification of that Convention of Hanover,signed 26th August, almost a month ago ; not ratified till Sep-tember 22d. About which there had latterly been some anxiety,lest his Britannic Majesty himself might have broken-off fromit. With Austria, with Saxony, Brit

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