Not a village, bog, knoll, but Friedrich has caught up, and is busy profiting by.

"Swift, BURSCHE, dig ourselves in here, and be ready for any quotity and quantity of them, if they dare attack!" And 25,000 spades and picks are at work, under such a Field-Engineer as there is not in the world when he takes to that employment.

At all hours, night and day, 25,000 of them: half the Army asleep, other half digging, wheeling, shovelling; plying their utmost, and constant as Time himself: these, in three days, will do a great deal of spade-work.
Batteries, redoubts, big and little; spare not for digging.

Here is ground for Cavalry, too; post them here, there, to bivouac in readiness, should our Batteries be unfortunate.

Long Trenches there are, and also short; Batteries commanding every ingate, and under them are Mines: "We will blow you and our Batteries both into the air, in case of capture!" think the Prussians, the common men at least, if Friedrich do not.
"Mines, and that of being blown into the air," says Tempelhof, "are always very terrible to the common man." In places there are "Trenches 16 feet broad, by 16 deep," says an admiring Archenholtz, who was in it: "and we have two of those FLATTERMINEN (scatter-mines," blowing-up apparatuses) "to each battery." [Archenholtz, ii.