eleven at night
On the 7th of August Frederick was thirty miles west of Liegnitz . Here he halted for a day , and on the 9th marched to the Katzbach valley , only to find that Daun was securely posted on the other side of the river , and Lacy on the hills a few miles off . The next morning Frederick marched down the bank of the Katzbach to Liegnitz , Daun keeping parallel with him on the other side of the river . Knowing that Daun had been joined during the night by Loudon , and that they were vastly too strong to be attacked , Frederick started at eleven at night , and at daybreak was back on his old camping ground . He crossed the river , hoping to be able to fall upon Lacy ; but the latter had moved off , and Frederick , pressing on , would have got fairly ahead of his enemies if it had not been for the heavy baggage train , which delayed him for five hours ; and by the time it came up he found that Lacy , Daun , and Loudon were all round him again . The situation seemed desperate . The army had but four days ' provisions left , and a scout sent out on the 12th reported that the roads over the hills were absolutely impassable for baggage .