[_Guerre de Boheme,_ ii.

23, &c.] And one hears in the mind a clangorous nasal eloquence from antique gesticulative mustachio-figures, witty and indignant,--who are now gone to silence again, and their fruitless bivouacs, and frosty and fiery toils, tumbling pell-mell after them.

This of Pisek was but one of the many unwise hysterical things poor Broglio did, in that difficult position; which, indeed, was too difficult for any mortal, and for Broglio beyond the average.
One other thing we note: Graf von Khevenhuller, solid Austrian man, issued from Vienna, December 31st, last day of the Year, with an Army of only some 15,000, but with an excellent military head of his own, to look into those Conquests on the Donau.

Which he finds, as he expected, to be mere conquests of stubble, capable of being swept home again at a very rapid rate.

"Khevenhuller, here as always, was consummate in his choice of posts," says Lloyd; [General Lloyd, _History of Seven-Years War,_ &c.