CHAPTER XIV .-- BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH.
So soon as Friedrich quitted Bohemia and Silesia for his Russian Enterprise, there rose high question at Vienna, "To what shall our Daun now turn himself ?" A Daun, a Reichs Army, free for new employment; in Saxony not much to oppose them, in Silesia almost nothing in comparison.
"Recapture of Silesia ?" Yes truly; that is the steady pole-star at Vienna.

But they have no Magazines in Silesia, no Siege-furnitures; and the season is far spent.

They decide that there shall be a stroke upon Dresden, and recovery of Saxony, in Friedrich's absence.

Nothing there at present but a Prince Henri, weak in numbers, say one to two of the Reichs Army by itself.

Let the Reichs Army rise now, and advance through the Metal Mountains from southeast on Prince Henri; let Daun circle round on him, through the Lausitz from northeast: cannot they extinguish Henri between them; snatch Dresden, a weak ill-fortified place, by sudden onslaught, and recapture Saxony?
That will be magnanimous to our august Allies;--and that will be an excellent scaffolding for recapture of Silesia next year.