Daun is zealously urgent on Lacy, on O'Donnell; who do try what they can; send reinforcements, and the like; but nothing that proves useful.

O'Donnell is not the man for such a crisis: Lacy, too, it is remarked, has always been more expert in ducking out of Friedrich's way than in fighting anybody.

[Archenholtz's sour remark.] In fine, such is the total darkness, the difficulty, the uncertainty, most or all of the reinforcements sent halted short, in the belly of the Night, uncertain where; and their poor friends got altogether beaten and driven away.
MAP FACING PAGE 527, BOOK XX---- About 9 at night, all the Austrians are rolling off, eastward, eastward.
Prussians goading them forward what they could (firing not quite done till 10); and that all-important pommel of the saddle is indisputably won.

The Austrians settled themselves, in a kind of half-moon shape, close on the suburbs of Torgau; the Prussians in a parallel half-moon posture, some furlongs behind them.

The Austrians sat but a short time; not a moment longer than was indispensable.