g Trenches there are, and also
short; Batteries commanding every ingate, and under them are Mines: "We
will blow you and our Batteries both into the air, in case of capture!"
think the Prussians, the common men at least, if Friedrich do not.
"Mines, and that of being blown into the air," says Tempelhof, "are
always very terrible to the common man." In places there are "Trenches
16 feet broad, by 16 deep," says an admiring Archenholtz, who was in
it: "and we have two of those FLATTERMINEN (scatter-mines," blowing-up
apparatuses) "to each battery." [Archenholtz, ii. 262 &c.]

"Bunzelwitz, Jauernik, Tschechen and Peterwitz, all fortified,"
continues Archenholtz; "Wurben, in the centre, is like a citadel,
looking down upon Striegau Water. Heavy cannon, plenty of them, we have
brought from Schweidnitz: we have 460 pieces of cannon in all and
182 mines. Wurben, our citadel and centre, is about five miles from
Schweidnitz. Our intrenchments"--You already heard what gulfs some of
them were!" Before the lines are palisades, storm-posts, the things we
call Spanish Horse (CHEVAUX-DE-FRISE);--woods we have in abundance in
our Circuit, and axes busy for carpentries of that kind. There are four
intrenched knolls; 24 big batteries, capable of playing beautifully, all
like pieces in a concert." Four knolls elaborately intrenched, clothed
with cannon; founded upon FLATTER-mines: try where you will to enter,
such torrents of death-shot will converge on you, and a concert of 24
big batteries begin their music!--

On the third day, Loudon, looking into this thing, which he has not
minded hitherto, finds it such a thing as he never dreamt of before.
A thing strong as Gibraltar, in a manner;--which it will be terribly
difficult to attack with success! For eight days more Friedrich did not
rest from his spadework; made many changes and improvements, till he had
artificially made a very Stolpen of it, a Plauen, or more. Cogniazzo,
the AUSTRIAN VETERAN, says: "Plauen, and Daun's often ridiculed
precautions there, were nothing to it. Not as if Bunzelwitz had been so
inaccessible as our sheer rocks there; but because it is a masterpiece
of Art, in which the principles of tactics are combined with those of
field-fortification, as never before." Tielke grows quite eloquent on
it: "A masterpiece of judgment in ground," says he; "and the treatment
of it a model of sound, true and consummate field-engineering."
[Tielke, iii. BUNZELWITZ (which is prai