Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-10-22

/ Il WAS in tho month Of August, I756, that the
I great war OF the BeTeH years commenced The
! King demanded of the EMPRESS Queen a dis
tinct explanation of her intsntions, and plaialy
/ told her that be should consider a refusal IS .
! declaration Of war. He received an answer ct
| enee Aeughty and evasive. In an Instant, the
/ rich electorate Of Ssxany was oveT60Wed BY
/ sixty thousand PrussisH troops. Aerustue With
| his army occupied a strong position st Pirns.
! The Qlcen Of Poland was at Dre78sn. In 8
/ few days Dresden was taken. The Saxon camp
az Pirne was closely invested; but the besieged
were not withoat hopes Of sdcc0r. A crest
Austrian army under Marshal Brown was Ebout
/ is Pour through the passes which separate B0-
bemis from SaxOny. Frederick left At Pirna 3
force sufficient 70 deal with the SaKons, has
| tened into Bohemia, encountered Brown ss
/ Lswosiiz and defeated him.
! The winter PUt stop to military operations.
/ All had hitherto gone well. But tbs real tag of
war was still TO cane. It was easy TO foresee
/ that the yOaT 1857 would be 3 memorable era IA
| the history Of Europe.
" The sekems for the campaign was simple,
! bold sBd jRdie0us. The Duke of CumberlsRd
/ with sn Eaglish and HanoveTisn army, was ia
| Germany aud might be able to prevent the
/ Ereuch tIOops from attacking Prussia. Tbs
Z Russians, confined By their SHOWS, would prob
| ably not stir till the spriBg vas fer advanced
Saxony was prostratsd. Sweden could do moth
ing very important. During a few months
Frederick would have to deal with Austria
alone Even TINS the odds were against him
But sbiity and eCHrsgs have often triUnpbei
| sgaiust odts still mOre formidable.
Early ia 1857 the Prussiaa army in Slxony
began to msys. Through f0Rr de6es in The
mountains they came pouring int Bohemia
Prague wss his frst mark; but the ulterior OBJ
jet Wss probably Vienna. At Prague lay Mar
ehsll Brown with one great army. Daun, the
most cautious and fortunate of the Austrian cap
tsins, was advancing with sHother. Freserck
determined to 0verwhelm Brown before Daua
sheuld arrive. On the sixth Of Nay was fought
= battle more bloody thar any which Europe
saw duriEg the long interval between Malpls-
euet and Eylau Tho victory remained with
ths King. But it bad been dearly purchased
Whole columns Of his bravest wsTlisrs had
fallen. He admitted that he had lest sighteel
thousand men. OF the enemy, twenty-four
Thousand had been killed. wounded OF taken
PsTs Of the debated army was shat Up Ia
Prague Part Asd to join the troops which,
usder the command Of Dsun, were new close
Al hand. frederic determined to play ever tie
same game which had sHecee ded at L0wositz.
He left large force to besiegs Prsgas, and a.
the head of thirty thsussud men be maTehed
against Daun. Tas cautious marshal, thoGgh
Re bad = great superiority in nEmbeTs, Weuld
risk nothing, He occupied aGKolin position
simos. impTegnsble, and awaited the attack Of
the King.
Il was the 18Th Of June-a day which If the
Greek superstition still retained its influence,
vaaid bo held sacred 70 Nemesis day os
which the two greatest princes ard soldiers Of
modern times were taBght, By a terrible expert
enco, that neither skill nor vsloT csn fix the in
eeHstsncy Of fortune. The battle began before
noon and gsrt Of the Pfussian srmT main
fhn aft =
had gone down. Bat a. length the Ki1T found
that bis troops, having beea repeatedly drives
b5ek with trigAttHl carnage, csuld no longer be
led TO the charge. He WAS with difficulty per-
suadsd to suit the field. The officers Of his
personal stat were under the necessity ef eX-
postalstiHg with him, and one Of thsm took the
liberty to say Does your majsst mean T.
storm the batteries alone ?" Thirteen thousand
Of his bravest followers had paIishsd. Nothing
remsiaod for him but to retTes. IN good order,
to reise the siege of Prague and 30 hurry his
army by different routes cut Of BoAsaia.
This stTsks seemed to be final FredeTiek's
situstion had at best been such that only an IN
interrupted ruR of good luck eoald save hin,
as it seemed, from ruin. And now, almost in
the outset Of the contest, he had met with
check which, even in q war between equal pew
ers, would have been felt SIS serious.
It seemed that the Kings distress could hard
~ 70 AAGE6G89us LBs aE kal8 IlU&bAl ANatUGL
blow, not less terrible than that Of the K1lin.
fell upon him The French, under Msrshsl
D'Estrees, had invaded GeTmbBy. The Duke
of Cumberland had given them battle At Has
teiRbeck, and had been defeated In order to
save the Electorate of Hanover from entire sub
jJg2tion, he had made, at ClOslern Severn an
arrangement with the French generals which
left them at liberty TO turn tkeir sFms against
the Pfusssn dominions.
At the beginning o. November the net seemed
to have closed completely around him. The
Russians were il the feld, aHd were spreading
devastation through his eastern provinces.
Silesia was overrun b. the Asstrisns a great
French army was advancing from ths west IN
der the command of Marshal S0Ubise, prince
Of The great ArmorieAn house of RohsR. Berlin
itself had been taken aad plHndersd by the
Crsatisns. Such was the situation from which
Frederick extriestsd himself witb dazzling glo-
~, in the short space Of thirty days.
de marched first against Soubiss. On the
5.h Of November the armies net at R0sbseh.
The French were two 60 one; But they were IL
disciplined, szd their general was Ounce TIE
tactics Of Frederick and the well-regslated vzlor
of the PfussiaR troops, obtained 3 complete VIC
terry. Seven thousand Of the invaders we've
made prisoners Their guns, their colsTs, their
baggage, fell into the hands Of the cOsuaerors.
Those who O. capped fed as eonfssedly - mob
scattered by esvalry. Victorious in tho West,
the King turned bis aTms toward Silssia j.
that quarter everything seemed to ba lest. Bres-
iau had fallen, and Charles Of Lorraine, will e
mighty power, hold the whole proviuea e.
tho fifth of December, exaetly OBa month after
the battle of ROsbaeh, Frederick, with forty
thousand men, and Princa Charles, At tbs head
of not less thsn sixty thousand, met g. Lsuthsu
hard by Bseslau. The King, who was, in gem
ersl, perhaps too much inclined to esHsidsr ths
common soldier IS a mere msCbiEe, TessFtsd, OF
this great day, to means resembling thesa whieh
BonsParte aIteTwsTd employed with such sac
cess feT the purpose of stimulating military
Enthusiasm The principal oficers were cor
veko1. Frederick addressed them with
great force and pathos, and directed them 70
speak 60 their men IS be had spoken 70 thea.
When the armies were set IN battle array the
Pfussian troops were IN 3 state of fierce excite
menf; but tleir excitement showed itself after
he fs5bion Of brave people. The columns ad-
vancsd 90 the attack chanting, to the sounds Of
drums and hfes, the rude hymns Of the old Sax
on He1bholds They had nsver foughs 90 well.
nor had ths genius Of their chief ever been 30
conspicuous. ''That battle" said Napsleon.
twas q masterpiece. Of itself it is sufEcisat to
eHtitie Frederick to place in the first raRk
among generals" The viesoTy was complete.
Twenty-seyen Thousand Austria1s were killed.
wounded, OF taken Gfy stand Of eolors hun
dred guns, and four thousand wagons fell into
the hands or the PrRssisns. Breslaa opened its
gates Silasis was reconquered; Charles Of Lsr-
faine tried to hide his shame and sorrow ct Brus-
selsi aad Frederick allowed his troops to take
some rep0se in winter quarters. after q cam
paigu, tS the vicissitudes of which il viii be df-
tsut TO find any parallel IN ancient or modern
history
The Kings isms filed sll tho world he had.
during the last yesr, maintained a contest, on
terms Of advantage, sgainst three powers, the
weakest of which had more than three times he
resources. He had fought four great pitched
battles against superior forces Three Of ihess
battles he had gsinsdi sBd the dsfsst Of Kolin,
repaired as it had been, rather raised than low
cred bis military renown. The victory of Leu
then is, to this day, tho proudest OH tAe roll Of
pruseian fsrna