Noailles, 'That he would take care of our Wounded, and bury our
Slain as well as his own,' we march [through a pour of rain] to
Hanau, where our victuals are, and 12,000 new Hessians and
Hanoverians by this time.

"Noailles politely bandaged the Wounded, buried the Dead. Noailles,
gathering his scattered battalions, found that he had lost 2,659
men; no ruinous loss to him,--the Enemy's being at least equal, and
all his Wounded fallen Prisoners of War. No ruinous loss to
Noailles, had it not been the loss of Victory,--which was a sore
blow to French feeling; and, adding itself to those Broglio
disgraces, a new discouragement to Most Christian Majesty.
Victory indisputably lost:--but is it not Grammont's blame
altogether? Grammont bears it, as we saw; and it is heavily laid on
him. But my own conjecture is, forty thousand enraged people, of
English and other Platt-Teutsch type, would have been very
difficult to pin up, into captivity or death instead of breakfast,
in that manner: and it is possible if poor Grammont had not
mistaken, some other would have done so, and the hungry Baresarks
(their blood fairly up, as is evident) would have ended in getting
through." [Espagnac, i. 193; Guerre de Boheme, italic> i. 231.-- Gentleman's Magazine, vol.
xiii. (for 1743), pp. 328-481;--containing Carteret's Despatch from
the field; followed by many other Letters and indistinct Narrations
from Officers present (p. 434, "Plan of the Battle," blotchy,
indecipherable in parts, but essentially rather true),--is worth
examining. See likewise Anonymous, Memoirs of the late
Duke of Cumberland (Lond. 1767; the Author an
ignorant, much-adoring military-man, who has made some study, and
is not so stupid as he looks), pp. 56-78; and Henderson (ignorant