they saved the army; at Kunersdorf, the king. At Lignitz, they were the first who discovered the enemy, and the last who remained on the field of battle. Finally, at Torgaw they crowned their former exploits, in the resis tance they made to a victorious enemy in pursuit of the king, by covering their vanquished countrymen; in repulsing a column of Austrian infantry; in routing a column of cavalry; in forming a junction with the Prussian army, and in checking the career of the enemy in order to afford Zieten time to overcome them. And yet the regiment was not complete at this period: a part was occupied in guarding general Saint-Ignon with eighteen officers (among whom were one colonel, and two majors,) and four hundred dragoons, who had been made prisoners before the engagement began.

In general, there had been no battle in which this regiment had acted ill; no officer belonging to it, who had not, more or less, distingished himself in pitched battles, encounters, or on particular occasions.

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justice to all, they should be all named; but their number would be great, and we must be satisfied with recording the names of Seelen, Möhring, Sommogy, Probst the elder, Troschke, Herrmann, Mahlen, Velten, Lenz, Zettmar, Hund, Prittwitz, Probst the younger, Köhler, Wolfrath, Berg, Lestocq, Kordshagen, Drössel, Schulz, Kalis, Köppen, Voigt, Schwarz, Reizenstein, Möllendorf, Puttlitz, Biela, Breetz, Bock, Löwenek, the two Quasts, the two Jur. gas's. Without presuming to decide whether the foregoing are the most celebrated, we may venture to assure the reader, that those we have omitted are highly entitled to honourable mention, and that none of them would disparage the list, whether those who have survived Zieten, or such, as having fallen in the field of battle, have preceded him to the grave. In general, from the camp of Pirna, down to the taking of Schweidnitz, there was scarcely an officer in the whole corps, who had not displayed talent, or courage, or presence of mind, or the union of these qualities together. Besides those who had been decorated with the order of military merit in

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the early campaigns of this famous war, there were several who owed that distinction to their exploits during the campaigns of 1760 and the three following years; and several to whom the king, since that period, granted patents of nobility.

The last battles in which Zieten's hussars had an opportunity of signalizing their accustomed valour, were those of Langensalza, Rudolstadt, Saalfeld, Hoyerswerda, Ditmannsdorf, Tharon, Boraw, Pantenaw, Habersdorf, Plauen, and Gottsberg. In these various actions, they were commanded by major de Prittwitz, except in that of Plauen (in 1761), whose unfortunate issue was owing to a point of honour which major de Hund had carried to a romantic extreme.

The victory remained doubtful. In vain major de Hund, who commanded the hussars, lifted up his hand, which had been just shattered by a musket-ball, in order to inflame his troops with courage and revenge; the enemy still remained invincible behind their intrench

trenchments.

At this moment, one of his

brother - officers was illiberal enough to observe to him with a sneer, that his hussars took care to stoop in order to avoid the enemy's fire; when M. de Hund, by way of an swer to so unmerited a charge, rushed with M. de Schulz and his small troop into the thick of the battle; and, after fighting with the most desperate valour, they all perished

to a man.

In 1762, captain de Köhler displayed the talents of a great general at Gottsberg, in conducting through a numerous body of the ene my, a square battalion of infantry, flanked by his hussars.

We should be fearful of fatiguing the rea der by any further detail on this head, how so ever instructive it may prove to men of the profession, and although authenticated by the most respectable authorities.

What Zieten's feelings must have been, when at the head of his regiment, he enter

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ed the gates of Berlin, it is not easy to describe. Let the reader imagine what reflections must have engrossed his mind, during the whose march with regard to the issue of this long and perilous war, and the singular felicity of his having escaped without any accident, and returned with the perfect use of all his limbs. Thrice had he accompanied the king into Silesia; thrice had gathered laurels there, and acquired new glory. How sincere must his satisfaction have been, to have so religiously acquitted himself of his promise to fight and to conquer for his country! He might, indeed, have considered, as partly his own work, the future prosperity of a state, whose foundation had been laid by the war, whose after-progress would be the result of that glorious struggle; and such animating reflections must have afforded him no inconsiderable recompense for all his cares and toils.

These brilliant remembrances, the high rank to which his own merit had raised him, his intimate connections with the king, filled up the measure of his happiness, and left him

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