[History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XV. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XV. (of XXI.) CHAPTER IV 34/36
Scenes in which Friedrich is not well informed; who much blames Einsiedel, as he is apt to do the unsuccessful.
Accounts exist, both from the Prussian and from the Saxon side, decipherable with industry; not now worth deciphering to English readers.
Only that final scene of the pitch-links, the night before meeting with Nassau, dwells voluntarily in one's memory.
And is the farewell of Einsiedel withal. Friedrich blames him to the last: though a Court-Martial had sat on his case, some months after, and honorably acquitted him.
Good solid, silent Einsiedel;--and in some months more, he went to a still higher court, got still stricter justice: I do not hear expressly that it was the winter marches, or strain of mind; but he died in 1745; and that flare of pitch-links in Rubezahl's country is the last scene of him to us,--and the end of Friedrich's unfortunate First Expedition in the Second Silesian War. "Foiled, ultimately, then, on every point; a totally ill-ordered game on our part! Evidently we, for our part, have been altogether in the wrong, in various essential particulars.
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