The Quadt-D'O garrison was 2,400,--and, if tales are true, it had been well bejesuited during those seven weeks.

[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ v.

55.] At four in the morning, July 26th) the battering began on Quadt; Quadt, I will believe, responding what he could,--especially from a certain Arrowhead Redoubt (or FLECHE) he has, which ought to have been important to him.

After four or five hours of this, there was mutual pause,--as if both parties had decided upon breakfast before going farther.
"Quadt's Fortress is very strong, mostly hewn in the rock; and he has that important outwork of a FLECHE; which is excellent for enfilading, as it extends well beyond the glacis; and, being of rock like the rest, is also abundantly defensible.

Loudon's people, looking over into this FLECHE, find it negligently guarded; Quadt at breakfast, as would seem:--and directly send for Harsch, Captain of the Siege, and even for Loudon, the General-in-Chief.