as 
and alone. - He wifhed to perfuade his ge- 
neral to acknowledge that he: had at leaft 
by [the caprice of his temper deferved the 
flights which had been put upoa him 5. 
and he held out his hand in token of for- 
givenefs and reconciliation. But Von 
Zieten would not confels mifcondu& of 
which he was not confcious. He flirunk 
back from the monarch’s advances. ¢* No 
then,” {aid Frederick, with an earaeftuefs 
that would not allow him to lofe fo valu- 
able a fervant, ‘It cannot be poffible, that 
my faithful Von Zieten fhould, on the 
approach of a dangerous war, abandon 
his King and his Country whofe confidence 
he fo fully poffefies'!’" This addrefs was 
wrififtible. 
the monarch’s feet, and vowed te fhied the 
lat drop of his blood in his fervice. He 
was raifed foon afrer to the rank of lieu- 
fenant-general, and prepared to take the 
field with his royal mafer. 
Innumerable were the great acts of Von 
Zieten in the famous war which then en- 
fued. He had the glory of covering the army 
in its paflage over the Muldaw, and in thg 
formation of the camp near Czifnitz imme- 
diately before the battle of Prague in May, 
1757. Having in that battle the command 
of the referve, he turned the fortune of the 
day, and enfured the victory to the Pruf- 
fians, partly by the reach of his forefight, 
and the judgment of his precautions, in re- 
gard to the difficulties of the plan of at- 
tack for the left- wing—in part by the frm- 
nefs, activity, and promptitude of thought 
with which he met the critical momen: of 
danger, and executed the plan of fupporr, 
which he had before fkilfully conceived. In 
the movements of the two armies round 
Prague, from the 6th of May tothe 18th 
of June, the day of the unfortunate defeat 
of the Praffians at Collin, Von Zieten aif- 
played wonderful intrepidity and genius 
in the vigilance with which he difcovered 
* and fruftrated almoft all the firatagems 
which the enemy attempted to execute 
with their light troops. Even in the ac- 
tion at Collin, Von Zieten was fuccefsful 
it that part of the movements which it had 
been entrufted to him to execute, till in 
the attack ofa battery he was firuck from 
his horfe by a grape-fhot, and left for 
dead ; but the ball had only grazed on his 
head, and he was'in good time placed on 
horfeback, and carried cut of the danger. 
His wound did not long reftrain him from 
fharing in the perils of this difficult cam- 
paign. He was prefent and fecond in 
command under his old and infidious 
rival Von Winterfeldt, when that general, 
in fpite of Von Zieten’s difiuations, ha. 
. : 
Life of General Von Zieten. 
Von Zieten threw himfelf at- 
[ Feb. 5. 
zarded an unneceflary and fool-hardy at=_ 
tack upon the Aultrians,on the hill of Holz. 
berg, and perifhed in it. Von Zieten had 
a glorious fhare in the fubfequent efforts 
by which the Duke of Bevern in vain 
{trove to fuftain the fortune of the Pruf- 
fian arms in Silefia againft the fuperior 
numbers of the Auftrians. It was by the 
judgment and refolution of Von Zieten 
that after the Duke of Bevern had been 
taken prifoner, the remains of his army 
were faved from entire ruin and diffolutioa 
by the pufillanimity and incapacity of the 
older lieutenant generals, Lefiwitz, Katte, 
and Kiow. The King gave the bighelt ap- 
probation of a piece of -fervice fo eminent 
and feafonable, by fending orders to Von 
Zieten to put thofe generals under arreft, 
and himfelf, as general in chief, to conduct 
the troops to join the army under -his Ma- 
jefty. In the important battle of Leu- 
then, which again turned in favour of the | 
Pruffians, the fortune of tne whole cam- 
paign, Von Zieten bagan the action by 
attacking and putting to flight the Aui- 
trian cavalry under General Nadafty. He 
performed fervice fill more important, by 
purfuing the enemy in their retreat, with 
uch a¢tivity and fuccefs, as to render it 
impoffible for them again to make head 
againft the Pruffians, for this campaigns 
When the Auftrians had been driven en- 
tirely out of Silefia; the King confided to 
Von Zieten the command on the frontiers 
cf Bohemia, during the winter. In Mo- 
ravia, in the campaign of 1758, the great 
Aufirian commander fucceeded in taking 
from Von Zieten a convoy of more than 
two thoufand loaded waggons, by the lofs 
of which the King was obliged to raifle 
the feige of Ollmutz. He covered the 
King’s retreat through the defiles of Mo- 
ravia.. After checking for a while the 
movements of Daun and Laudohn; Von 
Zieten by his precaution of making the 
cavalry to re-faddle their horfes much 
fooner than according to the King’s order 
on the night of the furprize at Hochkir-. 
chen, fucceeded in {paring to the Pruffians 
more than half the mifchief of that difaf- 
ter. In the campaign of 1759, Von Zieten 
diftinguifhed chicfly by the retreat of 
Soraw, one of the fineft atchievements of — 
military genius that were exhibited by the 
Praffians in the whole courfe of the war. 
In that of 1760, this general covered the 
King’s march from the banks of the Elbe 
to the town of Lignitz again the joiot 
efforts of Daun and Laudohn at the head 
of ninety thoufand Auftrians. Von Zieten 
after paffing the night with Frederick, be- 
fide a watch-fire, had a principal — 
wit 
