And is lord of the field all day:--but cannot hear the least word from Dresden; which is a surprising circumstance.
"In the afternoon Wunsch summons Maguire in the Neustadt: 'Will answer you in two hours,' said Maguire.

Wunsch thereupon is for attacking their two Pontoon Elbe-Bridges; still resolute for Dresden,--and orders Wolfersdorf on one of them, the Uebigau Bridge, who finds the enemy lifting it at any rate, and makes them do it faster.

But night is now sinking; from Schmettau not a word or sign.

'Silence over there, all day; not a single cannon to or from,' say Wunsch and Wolfersdorf to one another.

'Schmettau must have capitulated!' conclude they, and withdraw in the night-time, still thunderous if molested; bivouac at Grossenhayn, after twenty-four hours of continual march and battle, not time even for a snatch of food.