His army was hunted by Ziethen's cavalry to Koeniggraetz, losing two thousand prisoners and a large amount of baggage; and thirty-seven thousand men only, of the eighty thousand that stood in battle array at Leuthen, reached the sheltering walls of the fortress, and those in so dilapidated and worn out a condition that, by the end of a week after arriving there, no less than twenty-two thousand were in hospital.
Thus, after eight months of constant and weary anxiety, Frederick, by the two heavy blows he had dealt successfully at the Confederates, stood in a far better position than he had occupied at the opening of the first campaign; when, as his enemies fondly believed, Prussia would be captured and divided without the smallest difficulty.
Frederick wintered at Breslau, whither came many visitors from Prussia, and there was a constant round of gaieties and festivity.
Frederick himself desired nothing so much as peace.

Once or twice there had been some faint hope that this might be brought about by his favourite sister, Wilhelmina, who had been ceaseless in her efforts to effect it; but the two empresses and the Pompadour were alike bent on avenging themselves on the king, and the reverses that they had suffered but increased their determination to overwhelm him.
Great as Frederick's success had been, it did not blind him to the fact that his position was almost hopeless.

When the war began, he had an army of a hundred and fifty thousand of the finest soldiers in the world.

The two campaigns had made frightful gaps in their ranks.

At Prague he had fought with eighty thousand men, at Leuthen he had but thirty thousand.