We are here, 40,000 of the best and bravest troops.

A swift move on Holland only would have opened the road to certain success....

And this is Lombard's and Haugwitz's work!"[58] What meanwhile were George III.'s Ministers doing?
At this crisis English policy suffered a terrible blow.

Death struck down the "stately column" that held up the swaying fortunes of our race.
William Pitt, long failing in health, was sore-stricken by the news of Austerlitz and the defection of Austria.

But the popular version as to the cause of his death--that _Austerlitz killed Pitt_--is more melodramatic than correct.