The prince
Anhault-Dessau, with his corps, drew near the king of Prussia's army;
then the latter advanced as far as Budin, from whence the Austrians who
had an advantageous camp there, retired to Westwarn, half way between
Budin and Prague; and his Prussian majesty having passed the Egra, his
army, and that of mareschal Schwerin, were so situated, as to be able to
act jointly.

These advantages were but a prelude to a much more decisive victory,
which the king himself gained a few days after. Preparing to enter
Bohemia, at a distance from any of the corps commanded by his generals,
he made a movement as if he had intended to march towards Egra. The
enemy, deceived by this feint, and imagining he wras going to execute
some design, distinct from the object of the other armies, detached
a body of twenty thousand men to observe his motions; then he made
a sudden and masterly movement to the left, by which he cut off
all communication between that detachment and the main army of the
Austrians, which, having been reinforced by the army of Moravia, by the
remains of the corps lately defeated by the prince of Bevern, and by
several regiments of the garrison of Prague, amounted to near a hundred
thousand men. They were strongly intrenched on the banks of the Moldaw,
to the north of Prague, in a camp so fortified by every advantage
of nature, and every contrivance of art, as to be deemed almost
impregnable. The left wing of the Austrians, thus situated, was guarded
by the mountains of Ziscka, and the right extended as far as Herboholi;
prince Charles of Lorraine, and mareschal Brown, who commanded them,
seemed determined to maintain this advantageous post; but the king of
Prussia overlooked all difficulties. Having thrown several bridges over
the Moldaw on the fifth of May, he passed that river in the morning of
the sixth, with thirty thousand men, leaving the rest of the army under
the command of the prince of Anhault-Dessau; and being immediately
joined by the troops under mareschal Schwerin and the prince of Bevern,
resolved to attack the enemy on the same day. In consequence of this
resolution, his army filed off on the left by Potschernitz; and at the
same time count Brown wheeled to the right, to avoid being flanked. The
Prussians continued their march to Richwitz, traversing several defiles
and morasses, which for a little time separated the infantry from the
rest of the army. The foot began the attack too precipitately, a