431.] a mere "Bavarian Army," don't you see?
And the 40,000 wend steadily forward through Schwaben eastward, till they can join Karl Albert Kur-Baiern, who is Generalissimo, or has the name of such.
They march in Seven Divisions.

Donauworth (a Town we used to know, in Marlborough's time and earlier) is to be their first resting-point; Ingolstadt their place-of-arms: will readers recollect those two essential circumstances?
To Donauworth is 250 miles; to Passau will be 180 more: five or six long weeks of marching.

But after Donauworth they are to go, the Infantry of them are, in boats; Horse, under Saxe, marching parallel.

Forward, ever forward, to Passau (properly to Scharding, twelve miles up the Inn Valley, where his Bavarian Highness is in Camp); and thence, under his Bavarian Highness, and in concert with him, to pour forth, deluge-like, upon Linz, probably upon Vienna itself, down the Donau Valley,--why not to Vienna itself, and ruin Austria at one swoop?
[Espagnac, _Histoire de Maurice Comte de Saxe_ (German Translation, Leipzig, 1774), i.

83:--an excellent military compend.