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Chronology tIrIl5 " Of the German War.

Chronology Of the German War
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Chronological SketcIl Of Ghe2 2CanAtn
paign - AustrIan % I1Osses - Bar
bageHs, CynsIlIes Hattie of Ko-
CessIpn Of Xenetia. M
tFrOm sPecJ GOrrSssH9asspt oS The New sYVrk
-os 9di !Gdi 2niy9BEkLIN, July 9gls6sGT
During tfe last 9lfohfteeh Or fifteeR days
Prussia has set the world iHI astohishmelt.
ItsarInies have performed a series OF feats,,
than Which military history has noiie mpre
brilliant to adduGe.s, ,lT They have Operated /,
with a, speed, declsioI,5, boldnessi acc Tracy :
and foresight, beyon9 all praise: 91t, will
interest your readefsit briefly sketch the
course ofltfe caxpafVh to tife abfesent date.
On tlie 18th Of gane Vhe German Confeder-
alton was broken up en- the 10Th the Prusp,
sian troops were everywhere In, motion,17n'
especially on the frontiers Of Bohemia If
you look at the map Of Northern iPfussiR,2
you WIZ flbda that q tongue of Bohemia
Stretching int0 thely province Of Sileeiaf
leaving the fortified town of Ggatz on, the
right. and reaching on toward Schweid-
hftz,T anotlier Pfdssian fortress OF this
district Braunaufs the principal ,placs.W 1t,
Is now supposed that Field, Marshal Bene-,
hek's original plan was to penetrate Sllesia;
from Braunau, and to aim IN the trst IN
stanceat Breslau.s Nor could he havetaken
better cour&-4SJihe had taken tlmeOby the
iereloek; but these, sad is are always IN
some, ,pe9ple's way. gAS in many other
too SLOW! ITO the right from Braunaui lay
the larmyl Off the Grown, Prince OF
Prussia, with Il its headquarters first
in Neisse, and, afterward In Furstenstein.
To the left, at a considerable distance, lay
the army of Prince Frederick Charles, with
its headquarter at GUrlitz. Obviously Benz
edek's course was to move rapidly in be-
tween the two, first to attack the Crown
Pffnce and open Silesia; and then to pre-
pare for Prince Frederick Charles. o But he
Clidnot do so and what was worse for him,
the Prussians did, most boldly and rapid
ly, some wiseacres said, quite, against all
the rules of war, on the 18th Of June, COM
mence marching from three directions into
Bohemia. Gena Herwarth, who led the dir
visions destined to occupy lSaxony, after
securing Dresden, pressed onward ,Yia
Schluckenau, Hainpach and Rumburg, in
to the ehemy's country. After gaining a.
success ingHuhnerwasser he joined the,
central army ofPrince. Frederick Charles,
and co-operated with him in the battles
which ended in taking possession of Nun
chengratzI Meanwhile RrinGel Frederick
Charles had been working his way from
GorlitZ via Lobau, Qittan and Rietienberg,,
toward the same goal. ] passed over this
| ltie Of cotititry Il few days ago, and was
perfectly astonished on the one hand at
the bodness aad skill Ofithel Prussiaus; !; on
the other hand, at thestupidity, of the AUS,
ltrians. From Lobau to Qitta6 the country
lis rolling: round Qittau lie, in a semicifo
cle9 theinountains that form the Bohemian
| frontier; beyond Qittau the line ofdrait
windsn through a series of detiles9 most
dangerous for invaders, most easy of de-
tense for THE JattackBd.I Sixty Thousand
men posted here might have inflicted ter
rifle blows on the Advancing oPrussiaps.
Bnt nc, ,bipdrance of any moment mo- was pHt
llpected. In Vienna people characterized
lItheaP Prussianl advance conteiptuously as
I"ape-like lspeed;ns but such cq9tempS re-
llcoils on its entertainers. Within a, few
DAYS Prince Frederick Charles headqttar-
| teffs were established Oiii JReiehenborgS "a
neat town of IL 900 inhabitants = AT the
samelt time the CTOYpy PRINCES army made
llits way from Schweidnitz, via Liebau and
| Tratitehau, and from Glatz, Via Reinerz and
Il Naeh0d,j t0RRfd Josephstadt, u the first
II Austrian fortress Benedek'syd prihci1
pa, opposition 4 was iodrectea NJ against
| the Crown Prince, whose. army, ac7,
cordingly,, Had to make and sustain
bloody attacks, both in fradtenau and in
II IlNarsiiedreA The, main 1wOrb of lthe first
i lPEusslan army under Prince Frederick
Charles lay at TuFnau, Liebenau, Munchen7y
IIgratz and Gitschin.; of the second army,
Hinder the Crown iPrincey latI dTrautenauQ
Nafhod and Skalitz. AfterIt eLsuccessj at
Alo In