[ _OEuvres de Frederic,_ iii.

73.] In the beginning of December, Friedrich's column reached home, by Braunau through the Mountains, the same way part of it had come in August; not quite so brilliant in equipment now as then.
"It was upon Einsiedel's poor Garrison, leaving Prag in such haste, that the real stress of the retreat fell; its difficulties great indeed, and its losses great.

Einsiedel did what was possible; but all things are not possible on a week's warning.

He spiked great guns, shook endless hundredweights of powder, and 10,000 stand of arms, into the River; he requisitioned horses, oxen, without number; put mines under the bastions, almost none of which went off with effect.

He kept Prag accurately shut, the Praguers accurately in the dark; took his measures prudently; and labored night and day.