... of his cheerful resoluteness; they share the spirit and the daring of the victors of Rossbach; they burn to efface their own ignominy. Yet the Austrian army of sixty thousand men, under Charles of Lorraine and Marshal Daun veteran troops and double in number to the Prus sians, were advancing, as if to crush them and end the war. The Marquis of Brandenburg, said Voltaire, will lose his hereditary stat...