Chapter XV: Book XVII: The Seven-Years War: First Campaign—1756-1757

Chapter I.—WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS. HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVERED THE MYSTERY. CONCERNING MENZEL AND WEINGARTEN.

Chapter II.—ENGLISH DIPLOMACIES ABROAD, IN PROSPECT OF A FRENCH WAR. THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING OR LESS;—BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY RESULTS WHICH SURPRISE EVERYBODY. THERE HAS BEEN A COUNTER-TREATY GOING ON AT VERSAILLES IN THE INTERIM; WHICH HEREUPON STARTS OUT, AND TUMBLES THE WHOLLY ASTONISHED EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES HEELS-OVER-HEAD.

Chapter III.—FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT. KING FRIEDRICH'S ENIGMA GETS MORE AND MORE STRINGENT.

Chapter IV.—FRIEDRICH PUTS A QUESTION AT VIENNA, TWICE OVER. THE MARCH INTO SAXONY, IN THREE COLUMNS.

Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY.

Chapter VI.—BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ.

Chapter VII.—THE SAXONS GET OUT OF PIRNA ON DISMAL TERMS.

Chapter VIII.—WINTER IN DRESDEN.

BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757-1759.

Chapter I.—THE CAMPAIGN OPENS. REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION, WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER. FRIEDRICH SUDDENLY MARCHES ON PRAG.

Chapter II.—BATTLE OF PRAG.

Chapter III.—PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE. COLONEL MAYER WITH HIS "FREE- CORPS" PARTY MAKES A VISIT, OF DIDACTIC NATURE, TO THE REICH. OF THE SINGULAR QUASI-BEWITCHED CONDITION OF ENGLAND; AND WHAT IS TO BE HOPED FROM IT FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, IF PRAG GO AMISS. PHENOMENA OF PRAG SIEGE:—PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED.

Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KOLIN. THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUSTRIA.

Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON. PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE THAN EVER.

Chapter VI.—DEATH OF WINTERFELD.

Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME. I. FRIEDRICH'S MARCH TO ERFURT FROM DRESDEN—(31st August-13th September, 1757). II. THE SOUBISE HILDBURGHAUSEN PEOPLE TAKE INTO THE HILLS; FRIEDRICH IN ERFURT NEIGHBORHOOD, HANGING ON, WEEK AFTER WEEK, IN AN AGONY OF INACTION (13th September-10th October). LAMENTATION-PSALMS OF FRIEDRICH. III. RUMOR OF AN INROAD ON BERLIN SUDDENLY SETS FRIEDRICH ON MARCH THITHER: INROAD TAKES EFFECT,—WITH IMPORTANT RESULTS, CHIEFLY IN A LEFT-HAND FORM. SCENE AT REGENSBURG IN THE INTERIM.