History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED.
Winter Encampment.--Death of Maupertuis.--Infamous Conduct of Voltaire.--Reproof by the King.--Voltaire’s Insincerity.-- Correspondence.--The King publishes his Poems.--Dishonorable Conduct of the King.--New Encampment near Dresden.--Destruction of Frederick’s Army in Silesia.--Atrocities perpetrated by the Austrians.--Astonishing March.--The Austrians outwitted.--Dresden bombarded and almost destroyed by Frederick.--Battle of Liegnitz.-- Utter Rout of the Austrians.--Undiminished Peril of Frederick.-- Letter to D’Argens 495