That envoy approached the Prussian headquarters just in time to be swept away in the torrent of fugitives from Jena.

As for Russia, she had awaited the arrival of a Prussian officer at St.Petersburg to concert a plan of campaign.

When he arrived he had no plan; and the Czar, perplexed by the fatuity of his ally, and the hostility of the Turks, refused to march his troops forthwith into Prussia.[101] Equally disappointing was the conduct of Austria.

This Power, bleeding from the wounds of last year and smarting under the jealousy of Russia, refused to move until the allies had won a victory.

And so, thanks to the jealousies of the old monarchies, Frederick William had no Russian or Austrian troops at his side, no sinews of war from London to invigorate his preparations, when he staked his all in the high places of Thuringia.