CHAPTER V .-- BATTLE OF TORGAU.
After Hulsen's fine explosion on the Durrenberg, August 20th, on the incompetent Reichs Generals, there had followed nothing eminent; new futilities, attemptings and desistings, advancings and recoilings, on the part of the Reich; Hulsen solidly maintaining himself, in defence of his Torgau Magazine and Saxon interests in those regions, against such overwhelming odds, till relief and reinforcement for them and him should arrive; and gaining time, which was all he could aim at in such circumstances.

Had the Torgau Magazine been bigger, perhaps Hulsen might have sat there to the end.

But having solidly eaten out said Magazine, what could Hulsen do but again move rearward?
[_Hogbericht von dem Ruckzug des General-Lieutenants von Hulsen aus dem Lager bey Torgau _ (in Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ ii.

755-784).] Above all, on the alarm from Berlin, which called him off double-quick, things had to go their old road in that quarter.

Weak Torgau was taken, weak Wittenberg besieged.
Leipzig, Torgau, Wittenberg, all that Country, by the time the Russians left Berlin, was again the Reich's.