Witness Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau (still a YOUNG Dessauer) on the field of Blenheim;--Leopold had the right wing there, and saved Prince Eugene who was otherwise blown to pieces, while Marlborough stormed and conquered on the left.

Witness the same Dessauer on the field of Hochstadt the year before, [Varnhagen von Ense, _Biographische Denkmale_ (Berlin, 1845), ii, 155.] how he managed the retreat there.

Or see him at the Bridge of Cassano (1705); in the Lines of Turin (1706); [_ Des weltheruhnden Furstens Leopoldi von Anhult-Dessau Leben und Thaten_ (Leipzig, 1742, anonymous, by one MICHAEL RANFFT), pp.

53, 61.] wherever hot service was on hand.

At Malplaquet, in those murderous inexpugnable French Lines, bloodiest of obstinate Fights (upwards of thirty thousand left on the ground), the Prussians brag that it was they who picked their way through a certain peat-bog, reckoned impassable; and got fairly in upon the French wing,--to the huge comfort of Marlborough, and little Eugene his brisk comrade on that occasion.