while
on march.

"Ahead of each Column go three Pontoon Wagons; and daily are 50
work-people allowed them, who are immediately to lay Bridge, where it is
necessary. The rear-guard of each Column takes up these Bridges again;
brings them on, and returns them to the head of the Column, when the
Army has got to camp. In the Second Column are to be 500 wagons, and
also in the Third 500, so shared that each battalion gets an equal
number. The battalions--" [In TEMPELHOF (iv. 125, 126) the entire
Piece.]... This may serve as specimen.

The March proceeded through the old Country; a little to left of the
track in June past: Roder Water, Pulsnitz Water; Kamenz neighborhood,
Bautzen neighborhood,--Bunzlau on Silesian ground. Daun, at
Bischofswerda, had foreseen this March; and, by his Light people, had
spoiled the Road all he could; broken all the Bridges, HALF-felled the
Woods (to render them impassable). Daun, the instant he heard of the
actual March, rose from Bischofswerda: forward, forward always, to be
ahead of it, however rapid; Lacy, hanging on the rear of it, willing to
give trouble with his Pandour harpies, but studious above all that it
should not whirl round anywhere and get upon his, Lacy's, own throat.
One of the strangest marches ever seen. "An on-looker, who had observed
the march of these different Armies," says Friedrich, "would have
thought that they all belonged to one leader. Feldmarschall Daun's he
would have taken for the Vanguard, the King's for the main Army, and
General Lacy's for the Rear-guard." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ v. 56.]
Tempelhof says: "It is given only to a Friedrich to march on those
terms; between Two hostile Armies, his equals in strength, and a Third
[Loudon's, in Striegau Country] waiting ahead."

The March passed without accident of moment; had not, from Lacy or Daun,
any accident whatever. On the second day, an Aide-de-Camp of Daun's
was picked up, with Letters from Lacy (back of the cards visible to
Friedrich). Once,--it is the third day of the March (August 6th, village
of Rothwasser to be quarter for the night),--on coming toward Neisse
River, some careless Officer, trusting to peasants, instead of examining
for himself and building a bridge, drove his Artillery-wagons into the
so-called ford of Neisse; which nearly swallowed the foremost of them in
quicksands. Nearly, but not completely; and caused a loss of five or six
hours to that Second Column. So that darkness came on Column