hree other Villages besides Mollwitz, miles apart.
Neipperg's trumpets clangor, his aides-de-camp gallop: he has his left
wing formed, and the other parts in a state of rapid genesis, Horse and
Foot pouring in from Laugwitz, Barzdorf, Gruningen, before the Prussians
have quite done deploying themselves, and got well within shot of him.
Romer, by birth a Saxon gentleman, by all accounts a superior soldier
and excellent General of Horse, commands this Austrian left wing,
General Goldlein, [(Anonymous) MARIA THERESA (already cited), p. 8 n.]
a Swiss veteran of good parts, presiding over the Infantry in that
quarter. Neipperg himself, were he once complete, will command the right
wing.

Neipperg is to be in two lines, as the Prussians are, with horse on each
wing, which is orthodox military order. His length of front, I should
guess, must have been something better than two English miles: a
sluggish Brook, called of Laugwitz, from the Village of that name which
lies some way across, is on his right hand; sluggish, boggy; stagnating
towards the Oder in those parts:--improved farming has, in our time,
mostly dried the strip of bog, and made it into coarse meadow, which is
rather a relief amid the dry sandy element. Neipperg's right is covered
by that. His left rests on the Hamlet of Gruningen, a mile-and-half
northeast of Mollwitz;--meant to have rested on Hermsdorf nearly east,
but the Prussians have already taken that up. The sun coming more and
more round to west of south (for it is now past noon) shines right
in Neipperg's face, and is against him: how the wind is, nobody
mentions,--probably there was no wind. His regular Cavalry, 8,600,
outnumbers twice or more that of the Prussians, not to mention their
quality; and he has fewer Infantry, somewhat in proportion;--the entire
force on each side is scarcely above 20,000, the Prussians slightly in
majority by count. In field-pieces Neipperg is greatly outnumbered; the
Prussians having about threescore, he only eighteen. [Kausler, _Atlas
der merkwurdigsten Schlachten,_ p. 232.] And now here ARE the Prussians,
close upon our left wing, not yet in contact with the right,--which in
fact is not yet got into existence;--thank Heaven they have not come
before our left got into existence, as our right (if you knew it) has
not yet quite finished doing!--

The Prussians, though so ready for deploying, have had their own
difficulties and delays. Between the boggy Brook of Laugwitz on