of Sackville, led at Minden, there had been a different
story to tell. The English, by their valor,' adds he, 'greatly
distinguished themselves this day. And accordingly they suffered by far
the most; their loss amounting to 590 men:' or, as others count,--out
of 1,200 killed and wounded, 800 were English." [Mauvillon, ii. 114.
Or better, in all these three cases, as elsewhere, Tempelhof's specific
Chapter on Ferdinand (Tempelhof, iv. 101-122). Ferdinand's Despatch
(to King George), in _Knesebeck,_ ii. 96-98;--or in the Old Newspapers
(_Gentleman's Magazine,_ xxx. 386, 387), where also is Lord Granby's
Despatch.]

This of Granby and the bald head is mainly what now renders Warburg
memorable. For, in a year or two, the excellent Reynolds did a
Portrait of Granby; and by no means forgot this incident; but gives him
bare-headed, bare and bald; the oblivious British connoisseur not now
knowing why, as perhaps he ought. The portrait, I suppose, may be in
Belvoir Castle; the artistic Why of the baldness is this BATTLE OF
WARBURG, as above. An Affair otherwise of no moment. Ferdinand had soon
to quit the Diemel, or to find it useless for him, and to try other
methods,--fencing gallantly, but too weak for Broglio; and, on the
whole, had a difficult Campaign of it, against that considerable Soldier
with forces so superior.

Chapter III.--BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ.

Friedrich stayed hardly one day in Neissen Country; Silesia, in the jaws
of destruction, requiring such speed from him. His new Series of Marches
thitherward, for the next two weeks especially, with Daun and Lacy, and
at last with Loudon too, for escort, are still more singular than
the foregoing; a fortnight of Soldier History such as is hardly to be
paralleled elsewhere. Of his inward gloom one hears nothing. But the
Problem itself approaches to the desperate; needing daily new invention,
new audacity, with imminent destruction overhanging it throughout. A
March distinguished in Military Annals;--but of which it is not for us
to pretend treating. Military readers will find it in TEMPELHOF, and
the supplementary Books from time to time cited here. And, for our own
share, we can only say, that Friedrich's labors strike us as abundantly
Herculean; more Alcides-like than ever,--the rather as hopes of any
success have sunk lower than ever. A modern Alcides, appointed to
confront Tartarus itself, and be victorious over the Three-headed Dog.
Daun, Lacy, Loudon coming on