[87] In this, as in most other similar cases, there is considerable diversity of statement as to the precise number of troops engaged on either side. But there is no question that the Austrians were in numbers far superior to the Prussians.
[88] Müller, Tableaux des guerres de Frédéric le Grand.
[89] Mémoires de Frédéric, Baron de Trenck.
[90] Carlyle, vol. iv., p. 171.
[91] Id. ibid.
[92] Voltaire, speaking of this action, says: “It was the famous old Prince of Anhalt who gained this decisive victory. He had been a warrior fifty years, and was the first who had entered into the lines of the French army at Turin in 1707. For conducting the infantry he was esteemed the most experienced officer in Europe. This great battle was the last that filled up the measure of his military glory—the only glory which he had enjoyed, for fighting was his only province.”—Age of Louis XV., chap. xvii.
[93] “About three pounds ten shillings, I think—better than ten pounds in our day to a common man, and better than one hundred pounds to a Linsenbarth.”—Carlyle.
[94] Commentaire Historique sur les Œuvres de l’Auteur de la Henriade.
[95] Supplément aux Œuvres Posthumes de Frédéric, ii.
[96] Voltaire boasted that he had gained the cause, because the Jew was fined thirty shillings. But he knew full well, as did every one else, that the result of the suit covered him with dishonor.