ndt to the right of the Elbe. He now took possession of a
very strong camp between the Elbe and the Mulda, which he intrenched in
every part that was accessible, and fortified with two hundred and fifty
pieces of cannon. By these precautions he was enabled to keep his ground
against the army of count Daun, and at the same time detach a body of
troops, as a reinforcement to his brother prince Henry, who assembled
a separate army near Franckfort upon the Oder, that he might be at hand
either to oppose the Russians, or march to the relief of Silesia, which
the enemy was bent upon invading. It was for this purpose that the
Austrian general Laudohn advanced, with a considerable army, into
Lusatia about the beginning of May; and general Beck, with another body
of troops, took possession of Corbus: meanwhile count Daun continued
in his old situation on the Elbe; general Lascy formed a small detached
army upon the frontiers of Saxony, to the southward of Dresden; and the
prince de Deuxponts marched into the same neighbourhood with the army
of the empire. Prince Henry of Prussia having encamped with his army
for some time at Sagan, in Silesia, moved from thence to Gorlitz,
in Lusatia, to observe the motions of general Laudohn, encamped at
Koningsgratz; from whence, in the beginning of June, he marched into
the country of Glatz, and advanced to the neighbourhood of Schweidnitz,
which he seemed determined to besiege, having a train of eight pieces of
cannon. With a view to thwart his designs, prince Henry reinforced the
body of troops under general Fouquet; and at the same time he sent a
detachment into Pomerania, under colonel Lessow, who defeated the rear
guard of general Tottleben, and compelled that officer to evacuate
Pomerania. By this time, however, mareschal Soltikoff had arrived from
Petersburg, and taken the command of the grand Russian army, which
passed the Vistula in June, and began its march towards the frontiers of
Silesia.

GEN. LAUDOHN DEFEATS GEN. FOUQUET, AND REDUCES GLATZ.

In the month of June, general Laudohn made an unsuccessful attempt to
carry Glatz by assault; but he succeeded better in his next enterprise.
Understanding that general Fouquet, who occupied the posts at Landshut,
had weakened himself by sending off detachments under the majors-general
Zeithen and Grant, he resolved to attack him with such a superiority
of number that he should not be able to resist. Accordingly, on the
the twenty-thi