History of Friedrich II of Prussia - Volume 19

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The posting of the Five Armies this Winter- Five of them in Germany, not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the horizon, for their months of rest- is something wonderful, and strikes the picturesque imagination. Such a Chain of Posts, for length, if for nothing else! From the centre of Bohemia eastward, Daun's Austrians are spread all round the western Silesian Border and the southeastern Saxon; waited on by Prussians, in more or less proximity. Next are the Reichsfolk; scattered over Thuringen and the Franconian Countries; fronting partly into Hessen and Duke Ferdinand's outskirts:- the main body of Duke Ferdinand is far to westward, in Munster Country, vigilant upon Contades, with the Rhine between. Contades and Soubise, - adjoining on the Reichsfolk are these Two French Armies: Soubise's, some 25, 000, in Frankfurt-Ems Country, between the Mayn and the Lahn, with its back to the Rhine; then Contades, onward to Maes River and the Dutch Borders, with his face to the Rhine, - and Duke Ferdinand observant of him on the other side