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ACHIEVEMENTS OE FIELD ARTILLERY. 
Prussian army was to make a combined effort and sweep them from 
their positions. The path of the troops which had to make their 
way through the woods with the King was a difficult one, and it was 
not until after 11 o'clock, when they had been eight hours on the 
march, that they were in the places assigned to them. 
BATTLE OE KUNEBSDORF; 12th August, 1759. 
aa Eussian Army. 
b Austrians under Laudon. 
c Finck’s Attack. 
d Prussian Main Army. 
e Attack of Prussian Grenadiers on the Muhlenberg. 
As soon as Finck's guns were heard, Frederick opened fire from three 
batteries on the Little Spitzberg and to the west of it. Meanwhile 
Finck's powerful force of artillery, amounting to 94 guns and howitzers, 
pounded the Russians from the other side. The hill on which they were 
placed had steeply scarped sides, and fire from its top could not there¬ 
fore search the hollows immediately below. A hill may be too steep 
for safety, if fire effect be interfered with, as the Russians, and others after 
them found to their cost. After half-an-hour's cannonade Frederick sent 
forward eight battalions of his grenadiers to the assault, and so success¬ 
ful was their rush that in 10 minutes their opponents were driven 
pell-mell from the Muhlenberg, leaving 70 guns as trophies in the 
hands of the victors. The configuration of the ground had masked the 
fire of their guns, and the nearer the assault had approached the less 
loss had it experienced. 
The Russians, driven from the Muhlenberg, fled across the hollow 
called the Kuhgrund, and took up a second position on the opposite 
height overlooking Kunersdorf. The Prussian guns could not be 
got up in time to harass the enemy's retreat, and he was able to with¬ 
draw unmolested to his second position, from which, with a numerous 
artillery, he poured a galling fire on his opponents. Ere this second 
