CHAPTER III .-- BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ.
Friedrich stayed hardly one day in Neissen Country; Silesia, in the jaws of destruction, requiring such speed from him.

His new Series of Marches thitherward, for the next two weeks especially, with Daun and Lacy, and at last with Loudon too, for escort, are still more singular than the foregoing; a fortnight of Soldier History such as is hardly to be paralleled elsewhere.

Of his inward gloom one hears nothing.

But the Problem itself approaches to the desperate; needing daily new invention, new audacity, with imminent destruction overhanging it throughout.

A March distinguished in Military Annals;--but of which it is not for us to pretend treating.