From the moment the cavalry made their first charge they were beaten, and ought to have given in; but they seemed to know nothing about it, and that second line of theirs charged as if it was but the beginning of a battle.
I was never so surprised in my life as when they poured down on us, horse and foot; but all that was nothing to the way they stood, afterwards.

If they had been bags of sawdust they could not have been more indifferent to our fire.
"That was a bad business of Dohna's men.

I thought, when we joined them, they looked too spick and span to be any good; but that they should run, almost as fast and far as the men of the Federal army at Rossbach, is shameful.

Neither in the last war nor in this has a Prussian soldier so disgraced himself.
"I don't envy them.

I don't suppose a man in the army will speak to them, and we may be sure that it will be a long time, indeed, before our Fritz gets over it.