He then sprang on horseback; spoke briefly the essential things (one of them the above);--"Had meant to be more minute, in regard to positions and the like; but all is so in darkness, embroiled by the flare of the Austrian watch-fires, we can make nothing farther of localities at present: Striegau for right wing, left wing opposite to Hohenfriedberg,--so, and Striegau Water well to rear of us.

Be diligent, exact, all faculties awake: your own sense, and the Order of Battle which you know, must do the rest.

Forward; steady: can I doubt but you will acquit yourselves like Prussian men ?" And so they march, across the Bridge at Striegau, south outskirt of the Town,--plank Bridge, I am afraid;--and pour themselves, to right and to left, continually the livelong night.
To describe the Battle which ensued, Battle named of Striegau or Hohenfriedberg, excels the power of human talent,--if human talent had leisure for such employment.

It is the huge shock and clash of 70,000 against 70,000, placed in the way we said.

An enormous furious SIMALTAS (or "both-at-once," as the Latins phrase it), spreading over ten square miles.