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no order arriving, all three garrisons, containing 3,000 

 men, were taken prisoners.' 



Tlie whole campaign of 1744 was unfortunate to 

 Frederick, and his ill success seems attributable more 

 to the services of the cavalry of the Austrians as 

 outposts, than to any other cause. Carlylo says : 

 "While old Traun is kept luminous as mid-day, the 

 circumambient atmosphere of Pandours is tenebrific to 

 Frederick, keeps him in perpetual midnight. He has 

 to read his position as with flashes of lightning for most 

 part, a heavily laden, sorely exasperated man."* 



In the passage of the Elbe by the Austrians at Teinitz 

 on the 19th November, 1744, the light cavalry swam 

 or waded the river, above and below the point at which 

 the passage was effected, and got into the woods in the 

 rear. Ziethen and Wedell, who were defending the 

 [lassage bravely, sent out scout after scout to bring aid, 

 but every one was killed, so that no help could come, 

 and tliey were obliged to fall back fighting. 



The battle of Sohr we have already seen was a 

 sur})rise. Thirty thousand Austrians marched around 

 Frederick's right flank under cover of a veil of hussars, 

 who had their outposts squatted in the bushes within 

 500 yards of the Prussian camp. This was all owing to 

 tlie excellent qualities of the Austrian cavalry for out- 

 post duty. Frederick was obliged to deploy his lines 

 under a heavy fire of artillery, and would certainly have 

 been defeated had the Austrian cuirassiers and infantry 

 been anything like equal to the Prussians in soldierly 

 skill upon the battle-field. 



The battle of Hochkirch was also a surprise, and very 

 similar to that of Solir, but Ziethen had learned to 

 understand his foe, and with sleepless vigilance held his 

 hussars ready, and so saved the army. 



General Lloyd, who served in the Austrian army, says 

 that " At the head of 200 chasseurs and 100 dragoons, 

 he, during the whole campaign of 1760, kept so near 

 the King of Prussia's army, that he never lost sight of it 

 for an hour, though the Austrian army, and tbs corps 

 ' Carlylo, iv. 35, 36. - Ibid. iv. 37, 38. 



