The Duke of Lorraine having been thus thwarted in his plan of relieving Prague, and not being prepared to assail the allied army in possession of the citadel, and behind the ramparts of the city, detached a part of his army to keep the enemy in check, and sent General Kevenhuller, with thirty thousand men, to invade and take possession of Bavaria, now nearly emptied of its troops.  By very sagacious movements the general soon became master of all the defiles of the Bavarian mountains.  He then pressed forward, overcoming all opposition, and in triumph entered Munich, the capital of Bavaria, the very day Charles was chosen emperor.  Thus the elector, as he received the imperial crown, dropped his own hereditary estates from his hand.

This triumph of the queen’s arms alarmed Frederic of Prussia.  He reposed as little confidence in the honesty of the Austrian court as they reposed in him.  He was afraid that the queen, thus victorious, would march her triumphant battalions into Silesia and regain the lost duchy.  He consequently, in total disregard of his treaty, and without troubling himself to make any declaration of war, resumed hostilities.  He entered into a treaty with his old rival, the Elector of Bavaria, now King of Bohemia, and Emperor of Germany.  Receiving from the emperor large accessions of territory, Frederic devoted his purse and array to the allies.  His armies were immediately in motion.  They overran Moravia, and were soon in possession of all of its most important fortresses.  All the energies of Frederic were consecrated to any cause in which he enlisted.  He was indefatigable in his activity.  With no sense of dishonor in violating a solemn treaty, with no sense of shame in conspiring with banded despots against a youthful queen, of whose youth, and feebleness and feminine nature they wished to take advantage that they might rob her of her possessions, Frederic rode from camp to camp, from capital to capital, to infuse new vigor into the alliance.  He visited the Elector of Saxony at Dresden, then galloped to Prague, then returned through Moravia, and placed himself at the head of his army.  Marching vigorously onward, he entered upper Austria.  His hussars spread terror in all directions, even to the gates of Vienna.

The Hungarian troops pressed forward in defense of the queen.  Wide leagues of country were desolated by war, as all over Germany the hostile battalions swept to and fro.  The Duke of Lorraine hastened from Moravia for the defense of Vienna, while detached portions of the Austrian army were on the rapid march, in all directions, to join him.  On the 16th of May, 1742, the Austrian army, under the Duke of Lorraine, and the Prussian army under Frederic, encountered each other, in about equal numbers, at Chazleau.  Equal in numbers, equal in skill, equal in bravery, they fought with equal success.  After several hours of awful carnage, fourteen thousand corpses strewed the ground.  Seven thousand were Austrians, seven