, 1866-07-20
From tie L0ndom Times, lilly 81
THE WAR in GERMANY.

The latest kilograms go far towards
reconciling, on all substantial points, the
apparently conflicting intelligence which
has hitherto reached US from the seat Of
war. 1t is in the nature Of a struggle
like the one now in progress in Bohemia
to give rise to such frequent and sudden
yicissitudes of fortune that the army
which believes and proclaims itself VIC
torious from morning to noon may have
to allow it's opponent TO give an account
of it's defeat before sunset. The whole
war for the latter part of last week con
sisted of o series of separate and desul-
tory engagements all along the line, the
general results of which only become
manifest TO us now that we are enabled
10 refer them to the main object with
which each of the two belIigerents en-
tered the field.
Masters of Silesia and Saxony, the
Prussians contemplated and effected an
inroad into Bohemia by the avenues that
open through the various mountain pass
es encompassing that kingdom on the
north and northeast. Their aim was TO
pour in from all sides, and to effect their
junction at some central point where their
combined forces might be equal to the
task of engaging the armies of Austria
united under Marshal Benedek. Bene-
dek, on the other hand, strongly posted
at the junction of the Austrian railroads
at Pardubitz, with his front safe behind
his %strongholds of K6niggratz and Jo-
sephstadt, had no other task than TO
meet the Prussians at all points as they
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their junction in the plain, and, if he fail.
ed in this enterprise, to fall upon them
with all his might wherever he could
come up with them, and compel them to
accept a general and decisive battle. The
advance of the Prussians could not have
been effected with greater skill or success.
Prince Frederick Charles came down
with the 1st Army from Saxony, and his
main force occupied Turnau and Min
chengratz, while his extreme right follow
ed the line Of Leipa and Dauba as far as
Melnk. We have the Austrians' own
evidence that all these points had been
occupied by the Prussians, although their
version OF the encounters at Turnau and
Mlnchengratz would have led us to be-
lieve that the invaders had subsequently,
been driven from those positions. Ac-
cording to Ptussian statements, the Aus
%trians, beaten at interchangeable, have fall
len back upon FdrstenbGck, on the road
to Gitschin. A glance at the map will
show the reader at once the importance
of this ~latter-named point. Gitschin is
about SO miles from Prague, about 90
miles from Munchengratz, and only 10
from Turnau. While such was the pro-
gress of Prince Frederick Charles and
the LIST Army, the 2nd Army, under the
Crown Prince, had come from Glatz
across the Silesian frontier, and fought
with alternate success at Nachod, Skalicz,
and J%arosmirtz, coming thus at the latter
place very close to the walls of Joseph
stadt. Now, from Jarosmirtz, Joseph
stadt, or K6niggratz to Gitschin the dis
lance cannot exceed thirty miles, and the
two Prnssian armies, one at Turnau and
Munchengratz, the other at Jarosmirtz or
Skalicz, were both within one days
march of Gitschin, the very spot at
which they, in all probability contem-