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took up arms against Frederic, who had no allies in the South, or East, or North, and in the West none but Hanover, with Hesse and Brunswick. And as for Spain, not even the offer from Pitt of the conditional restitution of Gibraltar, Pitt to Keene, 23 Aug., 1757. Chat. Corr., i. 249. and the evacuation of all English establishments on the Mosquito Shore and in the Bay of Honduras, nor any consideration what- chap. XII.} 1757. ever, could move the Catholic monarch to draw the sword in favor of heretics. Keene to Pitt, 26 Sept., 1757. Chat. Corr., i. 271. As spring opened, Frederic hastened to meet the May. Austrian army in Bohemia. They retired, under the command of Charles of Lorraine, abandoning well stored magazines, and, in May, 1757, for the preservation of Prague, risked a battle under its walls. After terrible carnage, the victory remained with Frederic, who at once framed the most colossal design that ever entered the mind of a soldier,—to execute against Au