"'A very good style it is! I should like to know that man; I would thank him for it .-- Your General von Ried, then, had got the devil in him, that time at Eilenburg [spurt of fight there, in the Meissen regions, I think in Year 1758, when the D'Ahremberg Dragoons got so cut up], to let those brave Dragoons, who so long bore your Name with glory, advance between Three of my Columns ?'--He had asked me the same question at the Camp of Neustadt ten years since; and in vain had I told him that it was not M.de Ried; that Ried did not command them at all; and that the fault was Marechal Daun's, who ought not to have sent them into that Wood of Eilenburg, still less ordered them to halt there without even sending a patrol forward.

The King could not bear our General von Ried, who had much displeased him as Minister at Berlin; and it was his way to put down everything to the account of people he disliked.
KING.

"'When I think of those devils of Saxon Camps [Summer, 1760],--they were unattackable citadels! If, at Torgau, M.de Lacy had still been Quartermaster-General, I should not have attempted to attack him.

But there I saw at once the Camp was ill chosen.' EGO.

"'The superior reputation of Camps sometimes causes a desire to attempt them.