"Captains Stauffen and Ritzer were both ordered here, on their arrival at Berlin; and though I have not met them, I have heard from others of their escape from Linz, which they ascribed entirely to a major of Marshal Keith's staff, who was a fellow prisoner of theirs." For the next three weeks Fergus was on horseback from morning till night.

The movements of the troops were incessant.

The two French generals manoeuvred with great skill, giving no opportunity for the Duke of Brunswick to strike a blow at either.

Broglio, guided by a treacherous peasant, captured Minden by surprise.

Contades, with thirty thousand men, had taken up an unassailable position: his right wing on the Weser, and his left on impassable bogs and quagmires, and with his front covered by the Bastau, a deep and unfordable brook.