Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, in 1851; Being the Third Series of the Notes of a ... and Political State of the European People - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...or military qualifications--the ex-president of the Frankfort Parliament, for instance, Herr Von Gageven, was appointed major on the staff, without any previous military service--and it was very inferior to the staff of the Danish army, composed of picked officers bred in the military school to this service, acquainted with its duties and objects, and some of them familiar with every road, stream, wood, or other military feature of the country before them. To the battle of Idstedt, 28,000 Danes marched on the 23rd of July, from Flendsburg, and Apenraade, against 32,000 Germans, who waited for them in their fortified position about eight miles north from their quarters in the town of Sleswick, and its neighbourhood. After leaving the town of Sleswick, the country is no longer, like a slice of England, divided by hedges into small fields, and studded with villages, and single houses. It is an open, barren country of heaths, peat mosses, bogs, pools, meadows of coarse grass in some of the depressions of the surface, and woods on some of the elevations. The villages are 252 THE BATTLE OF IDSTEDT. thinly scattered and single houses scarce. The main road from Sleswick to Flendsburg is good, the secondary and cross road sandy, and the country, although bare, open, and flat, is so intersected with ponds, bogs, and slow, or rather stagnant, ditchlike streams, or gulleys, the sources of the branch of the Eyder called the Treene, that if separate columns of troops could find their way on the footpaths leading through the peat mosses, they could not support each other, or find ground to deploy in. The position of the German army was deliberately chosen, fortified with field-works, and naturally so strong that it seemed inexpugnable. A long lake, called Langso, extended...

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