There was a consultation for half an hour, and then officers rode off in all directions; and in a few minutes trumpets were sounding, and drums beating, all over the town.
"In a very short time a movement began towards the western gate.

By ten o'clock the tents were all struck round the town, the waggons loaded, and they were on their way west.

An hour later, and the whole force was in movement in that direction; and as I issued from the town on this side, I met the cavalry that had been scattered among the villages, galloping in.

I don't think that there is, at the present moment, an enemy within ten miles of Erfurt." "You were in no danger, yourself ?" "None at all, sir.

I passed the night at a friendly peasant's hut, five miles this side of the town, inside their advanced posts.