Forage abundant all round, and the corn-harvest growing white;--here, strange to say, has Friedrich got planted in the inside of those innumerable Daun redoubts, and "woods of abatis;" and might make a very pretty "Bohemian Campaign" of it, after all, were Daun the only adversary he had! Judges are of opinion, that Daun, with all his superiority of number, could not have disrooted Friedrich this season.
[Tempelhof, ii.

170-176, 185;--who, unluckily, in soldier fashion, here as too often elsewhere, does not give us the Arithmetical Numbers of each, but counts by "Battalions" and "Squadrons," which, except in time of Peace, are a totally uncertain quantity:--guess vaguely, 75,000 against 30,000.] Daun did try him by the Pandour methods, "1,000 Croats stealing in upon Konigsgratz at one in the morning," and the like; but these availed nothing.

By the one effectual method, that of beating him in battle, Daun never would have tried.

What did disroot Friedrich, then ?--Take the following dates, and small hints of phenomena in other parts of the big Theatre of War.

"Konitz" is a little Polish Town, midway between Dantzig and Friedrich's Dominions:-- "KONITZ, 16th JUNE, 1758.