[3]Pirna is on the Elbe, twelve miles from Dresden. It suffered greatly not only during the Seven Years’ but the Thirty Years’ War. [4]Francis I, son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, married Maria Theresa in 1736 and was elected Emperor of Austria in 1745. [5]“Very certain it is, at sight of his own regiment in retreat, Feld-Marschall Schwerin seized the colors, as did other generals, who are not named, that day. Seizes the colors, fiery old man: ‘_Heran, meine kinder_’ (‘This way, my sons’), and rides ahead, along the straight dam again; his ‘sons’ all turning and with hot repentance following. ‘On, my children, _heran!_’ Five bits of grapeshot, deadly each of them, at once hit the old man; dead he sinks there on his flag: and will never fight more. ‘_Heran!_’ storm the others with hot tears. Adjutant von Platen takes the flag; Platen too is instantly shot; but another takes it. ‘_Heran_, on!’ in wild storm of rage and grief; in a word, they manage to do the work at Sterbohol, they and the rest.”—_Carlyle’s “Life of Frederick the Great_,” Book XVIII. [6]July 5, 1757, Frederick wrote to his sister Wilhelmina at Baireuth: “We have no longer a mother. This loss puts the crown on my sorrows. I am obliged to act; and have not time to give free course to my tears. Judge, I pray you, of the situation of a feeling heart put to so cruel a trial. All losses in the world are capable of being remedied; but those which death causes are beyond the reach of hope.” [7]July 22, 1757. [8]Eisenach is famous as the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, the father of modern music. Luther also passed his early days there. Wartburg, the princely residence of the Grand Duke of Weimar, is there. [9]A village in Saxony, nine miles southwest of Merseburg. [10]Carlyle, in his “Frederick the Great,” quotes the following verse from one of these hymns: “Grant that with zeal and skill this day I do What me to do behoves, what thou command’st me to; Grant that I do it sharp, at point of moment fit, And when I do it grant me good success in it.” [11]A famous solitary and massive eminence south of Leuthen, known as the “Magic Mountain.” [12] “Nun danket alle Gott Mit Herzen, Mund, und Händen, Der grosse Dinge thut An uns und allen Erden.” “Now thank God, one and all, With heart, with voice, with hands, Who wonders great hath done To us and to all lands.” [13]About $3.50 in our money. [14]About $3,350,000. [15]“His wardrobe consisted of one fine gala dress, which lasted all his life; of two or three old coats fit for Monmouth Street, of yellow waistcoats soiled with snuff, and of huge boots embrowned by time.”—_Macaulay’s Essays._