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and he mutt now have felt himfelf in 
the enjoyment of one of the happieit parts 
ef his profeflional life. - 
In the fhort interval between the firt 
and the fecond Silefian wars, Colonel 
Von Zicten was employed, in completing 
the numbers of his regiment, in perfeét- 
mg their cifcipline by improvements 
adopted from that of the Auftrian Huf- 
fars, and by frequent exereiie, in prefent- 
ing to the King, upon his Majeity’s 
order, written plans for the difpofition 
ef an army in the field of battle, upon 
eertain given-pofitions of the enemy, and 
in the enjoyment of domeftic happineis 
with an excellent wife whom he tendeily 
Foved, and with an income which, though 
not large, was more than equal to his 
wants. He fuffered a flight difcourage- 
ment in his fovereign’s refufal to raife 
him to the rank of Major-General, at the 
fame time with fome other officers whom 
he thought not more deferving of this 
promotion than himéelf. 
Scarce two years had paffed, when, to 
reftore the integrity of the dominions of 
the houfe of Autiria, 
imperial crown on the head of Maria 
‘Therefa or her hufband, the war was 
Fenewed. 
Silefia was the theatre of the war, in 
the beginning of the campaign of 1745. 
Von Zicten was, with his regiment, in 
the beginning of April, in the King’s 
main army, near Frankenftein.. The firtt 
enterprize on which he was difpatched, 
was, te convey intelligence between the 
King, and his fecond army under the 
Margrave Charles, entirely divided from 
him by the Auftrians; an atchievement 
mot to be accomplifhed without fealing 
or forcing a paflage through the midft of 
the Auftrian encampments. Von Zieten, 
with incredible addreis and a€tivity, con- 
duéted his Huflars, unobferved, among 
~,the pofts of the enemy ; and. was beyond 
all danger of difappoiniment in his enter- 
prize, before they were aware of his. paf- 
fage. The Margrave Charles, in obedi- 
ence to the orders thus communicated to 
him, immediately broke up his encamp- 
ment, and marched to join the King’s 
main army., General Von Zieten with 
his. Huffars, were interpofed at the rear, 
between the reft of the Margrave’s troops 
and the Auitrians, to cover the retreat. 
The Auftrians made a variety of bold 
and. fkilful. efforts to throw the Pruffian- 
march into generai diforder; but were 
ecnftantly repulicd by’ the vigilance and 
bold aftivity of the Huffars.—In the bat- 
tle of Grois-Henneriiorfi, which was, 
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not long after fought, General. Von 
Zieten, whole pof was at.the head of 
the referve, by feafonably interpofing to 
fhew the .poflibility of fording a river of 
which the bridge had been, at a critical 
moment broken down, and by advancing 
to fupport a divifion of the left wing 
that was, from this accident, im danger 
of being cut to pieces, contributed, in a. 
moft efiential manner, to determine the 
fortune of the day, and had’ thus an 
eminent fhare in one of the moft glorious, . 
victories which have crowned the Pruffian: 
arms. He was dilpatched, next day, 
with his Huffars, to harrafs the Auftrians,, 
in their retreat. He purfued them beyond 
the frontiers of Bohemia, cut off a con- 
fiderable number of men from their rear- 
guard, and took a part of_their bag- 
gage.—The two main armies remained, 
for the next three months, in poftures of 
moutual defence and defiance, during 
which the light troops were inceffantly 
employed in ftratagems and fkirmifhes. 
Von Zieten, watching over his Huflars, 
with the vigilance and affection of a 
guardian-genius, faved parties of taem 
trom various perils into which their too. 
daring boldnefs hurried them, and in 
particular, refcued one of his beft officers 
from extreme danger into which he had 
run, by urging too far, a fuccefsful at- 
tack on a party of Auttrian Ublans, 
near Koniginngratz.—His next opportu 
nity of diftinguifhing himfelf, occurred 
near Schlazer, as the Pruffian army was, 
atter the victory of Soor, upon its retreat 
out of Silefia. Von Zieten, there, with. 
only a part of his regiment, repulfed an 
attack: of ten thouland Auftrian light 
troops under. General Nadafty, which, 
otherwife, might, by the narrownefs and 
difficulty of the ground, have thrown 
the whole Pruflian army ~into confufion. | 
When, in the winter, Frederick’s march 
into Lufatia, and his. victory at Catholic- 
Hemerfdorff, defeated the defign of the 
Saxons and Auftrians to enter Branden- 
burgh, and make an attack upon Berlin;. 
—Von Zieten led the van of that divi- 
fion of the army which the King himfelf 
conducted ; made the firft difcovery, that 
the village of Catholic-Hennerfdorff was 
full of the enemy’s troops; fent inftant 
information to his fovereign of the necef- 
fity there was to prepare for action; 
made a diftribution of the force he had - 
with him, that was adapted to cut off 
that part of the Auftrian force which — 
was in the village, from all power of 
fafe retreat; then, himfelf, at the head 
of one his divifions, making a charge a 
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