In a word, let no error of your enemy, nor any favorable incident of the ground, escape your notice or your use.

It is by these means that your enemy is checked, and your troops inspirited; and it was by these that Frederick balanced his surprise at Hohenkirchen, and the defeat of his plans before Olmutz.

The movement of our own Washington, after losing the battle of Brandywine, was of this character.

He hastily recrossed the Schuylkill with the professed intention of seeking the enemy and renewing the combat, which was _apparently_ prevented only by a heavy and incessant fall of rain.

A rumor was now raised that the enemy, while refusing his left wing, was rapidly advancing upon his right, to intercept our passage of the river, and thus gain possession of Philadelphia.