ncamped at Dallwitz,
on the further bank of the river; leaving general Hulsen, with fifteen
thousand men, in the intrenched camp of Schlettow, to maintain his
footing in Saxony. On the third day of August he began his march for
Silesia, followed by count Daun with the grand Austrian army; while the
detached body under Lascy took post at Reichenberg, and the imperial
army encamped at Kesseldorf. Both the Prussians and Austrians marched at
the rate of one hundred miles in five days; on the tenth the king took
possession of the camp at Lidnitz; and here he seemed in danger of being
quite surrounded by the enemy, who occupied the whole ground between
Parchwitz and Cossendau, an extent of thirty miles. Count Daun's army
formed the centre of this chain, possessing the heights of Wahlstadt and
Liochkirk; general Laudohn covered the ground between Jeschkendorf
and Coschitz; the rising grounds of Parchwitz were secured by general
Nauendorff; and M. de Beck, who formed the left, extended his troops
beyond Cossendau. The king marched in the night of the eleventh, with
a view to turn the enemy and reach Jauer; but at break of day he
discovered a new camp at Prausnitz, which consisted of Lascy's
detachment, just arrived from Lauban. The Prussians immediately passed
the Katzbach, to attack this general; but he made such a skilful
disposition for a retreat towards the army of count Daun, that he not
only baffled the endeavours of the king to bring him to action, but, by
posting himself on the heights of Hennersdorff, anticipated his march to
Jauer. In vain the Prussian monarch attempted next day to turn the enemy
on the side of the mountains by Pomsen and Jagersdorff, the roads were
found impassable to the ammunition waggons, and the king returned to the
camp at Lignitz.

While he remained in this situation, he received advice that
four-and-twenty thousand Russians, under count Czernichew, had thrown
bridges over the Oder at Auras, where they intended to cross that river;
and he concluded the enemy had formed a design to close him in, and
attack him with their joint forces. Daun had indeed projected a plan for
surprising him in the night, and had actually put his army in motion for
that purpose; but he was anticipated by the vigilance and good fortune
of the Prussian monarch. That prince reflecting, that if he should wait
for his adversaries in his camp, he ran the risk of being attacked
at the same time by Lascy on his right, by Daun