His Fortune, His Valour, His
Activity, Added To His Obliging And Modest Behaviour, Indeed Rendered
Him So Dear To His Royal Master, That There Were Very Few, If Any, To
Whom He Gave Greater Marks Of His Favour.
And had Dorilaus, or even
Charlotta herself, all tender as she was, and trembling for the hazards
she knew
He had been exposed to, seen him thus caressed and honoured by
the most glorious prince and greatest hero in the world, they could
scarce have wished him to quit the post he was in, much less persuaded
him to do it.
He hitherto indeed had experienced only the happiness of a martial life,
for the fatigues, hardships, and dangers of it he as little regarded as
the intrepid and indefatigable prince he served; but now arrived the
time which was to inflict on him the worst miseries of it, and make him
almost curse a vocation he had been in his soul so much attached to.
The king of Sweden, with his usual success having passed the
Boristhenes, encountered a party of 10,000 Muscovites and 6000 Calmuck
Tartars; but they gave way on the first onset and fled into a wood,
where the king, following the dictates of his great courage more than
prudence, pursuing them, fell into an ambuscade, which, throwing
themselves between him and three regiments of horse that were with him,
hem'd him in, and now began a very unequal fight. - Many of the gallant
Swedes were cut to pieces, and the Muscovites made quite up to his
majesty:
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