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372 which, although he had never before been in that fortress he conducted with consummate skill, himself leading one of the most difficult and dangerous attacks. He succeeded at the first onset, and being the first field-officer that entered the town, was sent to Dresden and to Marshal Daun with an account of the success, and was immediately made a colonel. To follow him through all the battle and sieges in which he was engaged during these campaigns, would be giving a history of Laudohn’s army suffice it to say, that he was in every action of consequence in which that army was engaged, and was honoured by so much of the general’s confidence as to be very frequently employed above his rank, in preference to many older officers.

He had received two severe wounds in cutting off the king of Prussia’s convoy at Olmutz, in consequence of which he had been left for dead, and a slight one at the escalade of Schweidnitz. In July 1762, a short time before the last siege of that fortress, he was ordered thither by Daun to assist in its defence. On the 8th of August the trenches were opened, and on the 9th he commanded a well-conducted sally. On the 13th, at night, be conducted a second, in which he was struck by an iron cartridge ball, on the outside of the upper part of his left arm, which broke the articulation of his shoulder, and driving the limb with great force against his side, caused a violent and extensive contusion, which was pronounced by the surgeon to be much more dangerous than the fracture. He appeared so greatly better in the course of a few days, as to give hopes of his recovery, but on the 18th such an alteration for the worse had taken place, as gave a certain presage of his death. About seven o’clock that evening he sent for a particular friend, Captain Sullivan, who commanded a company of grenadiers in Konigsegg’s regiment; but as he was upon duty, he could not leave his post till he was relieved, which was about nine. As soon as he came into the room, the colonel said to him, “My dear Sullivan, as you have known me intimately several