And indeed, says Mannstein, had the Turks sallied out in pursuit at that moment, they might have chased us back to Russia.

But the Turks did not sally.

And the internal conflagration is not quenched, far from it;--and about nine A.M.their Powder-Magazine, conflagration reaching it, roared aloft into the air, and killed seven thousand of them," [Mannstein, pp.
151-156.]-- So that Oczakow was taken, sure enough; terms, life only: and every remaining Turk packs off from it, some "twenty thousand inhabitants young and old" for one sad item .-- A very blazing semi-absurd event, to be read of in Prussian military circles,--where General Keith will be better known one day.
Russian War with the Turk: that means withal, by old Treaties, aid of thirty thousand men from the Kaiser to Russia.

Kaiser, so ruined lately, how can he send thirty thousand, and keep them recruited, in such distant expedition?
Kaiser, much meditating, is advised it will be better to go frankly into the Turk on his own score, and try for slices of profit from him in this game.

Kaiser declares war against the Turk; and what is still more interesting to Friedrich Wilhelm and the Berlin Circles, Seckendorf is named General of it.