...
"These Pandours give us trouble enough; no Magazine here, no living to be had in this Country beside them.

Unfortunate Colonel Jahnus went out from Tabor lately, to look after requisitioned grains: infinite Pandours set upon him [Muhlhausen is the memorable place]; Jahnus was obstinate (too obstinate, thinks Friedrich), and perished on the ground, he and 200 of his.

[ _OEuvres de Frederic,_ iii.

61.] Nay, next, a swarm of them came to Tabor itself, Nadasti at their head; to try whether Tabor, with its small garrison, could not be escaladed, and perhaps Prince Henri, who lies sick there, be taken?
Tabor taught them another lesson; sent them home with heads broken;--which Friedrich thinks was an extremely suitable thing.

But so it stands: Here by the thousand and the ten thousand they hang round us; and Prince Karl--It is of all things necessary we get hold of that Beneschau, and the Magazine he is gathering there! "Rapidity is indispensable,--and yet how quit Tabor?
We have detachments out at Neuhaus, at Budweis, and in Tabor 300 men in hospital, whom there are no means of carrying.