On the following day Fergus started, riding the new horse the count had given him, while Karl led Tartar.

The journey to Breslau was performed without adventure.

He found on arrival that the king had, ten days before, gone to Landshut, round which place a portion of his army was cantoned.

At Landshut he commanded the main pass into Bohemia, was in a position to move rapidly towards any point where Daun might endeavour to break through into Silesia, and was yet but a few marches from Dresden, should the tide of war flow in that direction.
Already several blows had been struck at the enemy.

As early as the 16th of February, Prince Henry had attacked the Confederate army which, strengthened by some Austrian regiments, had intended to fortify itself in Erfurt, and driven it far away; while the Prince of Brunswick had made a raid into the small Federal states, and carried off two thousand prisoners.