[History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) CHAPTER III 4/30
He had come to Sagan "by almost the rapidest marches ever heard of,"-- or ever till some others of Henri's own, which he made in that neighborhood soon.
Punctual, he, to his day; as are Eugen of Wurtemberg's people, and all Detachments and Divisions: Friedrich himself arrives at Sagan that same 29th, "about midnight,"-- and finds plenty of work waiting: no sleep these two nights past; and none coming just yet! A most swift rendezvous.
The speed of everybody has been, and needs still to be, intense. This rendezvous at Sagan--intersection of Henri and Friedrich, bound different roads (the Brothers, I think, did not personally meet, Henri having driven off for Schmottseifen by a shorter road)--was SUNDAY, JULY 29th.
Following which, are six days of such a hunt for those Austrian reynards as seldom or never was! Most vehement, breathless, baffling hunt; half of it spent in painfully beating cover, in mere finding and losing.
Not rightly successful, after all.
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