History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...silence' marched home to their tents again, in a humor too deep for words. " Yes; and we find they fell sick in multitudes that night, and ' in two days more were reduced from 6645 to 3200 effective;' Vernon, from the sea, looking disdainfully on; and it became evident that the big Project had gone to water, and that nothing would remain but to return straightway to Jamaica in bankrupt condition, which accordingly was set about. And ten days hence (April 26th), the final party of them did get on board--punctual to take ' three tents, ' their last rag of Siege-furniture, along with them, 'lest Don Bias have trophies, ' thinks poor Wentworth--and sailed away, with their sad Siege finished in such fashion. Strenuous Siege, which, had the War-Sciences been April-May, 1741. foolishness, and the Laws of Nature and the rigors of Arithmetic and Geometry been stretchable entities, might have succeeded better "" "Evening of April 26th"--I perceive it was in the very hours while Belleisle arrived in Friedrich's Camp of Mollwitz--eve of that Siege of Brieg, which we saw performing itself with punctual regard to said Laws and rigors, and issuing in so different a manner Nothing that my Constitutional Historian has said equals in pungent enormity the matter-of-fact Picture left by Tobias Smollett of the sick and wounded in the interim which followed that attempt on Fort Lazar and the Laws of Nature: "As for the sick and wounded," says Tobias, " they were, next day, sent on board of the transports and vessels called hospital-ships, where they languished in want of every necessary comfort and accommodation. They were destitute of surgeons, nurses, cooks, and proper provision; they were pent up between decks in small vessels, where they had not room to sit...