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 4S ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758,

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a place called (jnetiuiylen.

Although Prince Ferdinand was obliged to pafs the Rhine, and to 2&. more upon the dcfenlive for the future; yet his vigorous conduft in the beginning was very glorious to him, and very advantageous to the common cauje. The French fuf- fered greatly in their military re- putation ; die Hanoverians had gained a fupcriority over them; and now fo much of the campaign was wafted, that notwithllanding Uhe greatjiefs of tljeir numbers, it was

not probable that they would find themfclves able to make any conii- derahle progrefs in their defigns againll the King's eledoral domi- nions for this year. The advan- tage gained by Broglio and Sou- bife was not attended with the confequences, which might have been apprehended Prince Yfen- burg kept fo good a countenance in a ftroug poft he had chofen, that the French did not chufe to at- tack him again; and fnice Prince' Ferdinand had repaffed the Rhine,, he might always be well fupport- ed.

CHAP.

XL

Retreat frovi Bohemia. Mcaj'ures of Count Daun. Battle of Cujlrin. Kht^ of PruJJia tnnrches into i>axo'/:y, apzd joins Prince Henry.

BY the retreat of the PrufTians from Moravia, the war had alTumed a new face. The generals who conduced it had changed hands. The King of Pruiiia was obliged to adt upon the defenfive ; M. Daun was now in a condition of difplaylng his talents in an oi- fenfive war. The affairs of the King of Pruffia were fcarce ever in a more critical fitaation than at that time. The Ruffians feemed at firft difpofed to enter into Sileha; but now they had united their jfeveral disjoined corps, penetrated into the New Marche of Branden- burg, and having commenced the liege of Cullrin, a place that threatened them with no great op- pofition, they were arrived within a few days march of Berlin. Count Dohna polled with a greatly inferi- or force at Frankfort on the Oder, watched without being able to ob- ftriift their progrefs. In Pome- rania, the generals Wedel and

Manteufel oppofed almoft the f^me inefFeclual efforts to the arms of Sweden. The army of the Empire and a confiderable body of Aultri- ans under General Haddick advan- ced into Saxony, and pofTeliing themfelves by degrees of thofe ftrong polls, which compofe the frontiers of Mifnia, they continu- ally ftreightened the quarters of Prince Henry. That Prince was ilrongly encamped at Dippofwalde, with about 20,coo men, in order to cover Drefden, and comm.and the courie of the Elbe. Thus circum- itanced, the King could not find his account in remaining long in Bohemia, where it was impofiible to effefl any thing decifive. Every' thing depended upon his being able to drive the Rufiians out of his ter- ritories, who with a mighty force ruined every place they arrived ar, and feemed not only to make war agalnil him, but againil human na- ture itfelf.

M. Daun