As they approached our lines with waving of hands and blowing of bugles, old Marshal Hinterlassen discharged a volley of all the cannon upon the walls at them, killing three score and striking great panic into the others.

"The rogues must get used to standing fire sooner or later," said he, "so they may as well commence their education at once."' 'He was a rough schoolmaster,' I remarked.

'He might have left that part of the drill to the enemy.' 'Yet his soldiers loved him,' said Saxon.

'He was not a man, when a city had been forced, to inquire into every squawk of a woman, or give ear to every burgess who chanced to find his strong-box a trifle the lighter.
But as to the slow commanders, I have known none to equal Brigadier Baumgarten, also of the Imperial service.

He would break up his winter-quarters and sit down before some place of strength, where he would raise a sconce here, and sink a sap there, until his soldiers were sick of the very sight of the place.