They had to go at the Welhoten part, and even to run,--plunging into Elbe, a good few of them, and drowning there, in the vain hope to swim.

"Never have my troops," says Friedrich, "done such miracles of valor, cavalry as well as infantry, since I had the honor to command them.

By this dead-lift achievement (TOUR DE FORCE) I have seen what they can do." [Letter to Schwerin, "Lobositz, 2d August, 1756" (Retzow, i.

64); RELATION DE LA CAMPAGNE, 1756, that is, PRUSSIAN ACCOUNT (in _Gesammelte Nachrichten), _i.848.Lloyd, UT SUPRA, i.

2-11 (who has solid information at first hand, having been an actor in these Wars.