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A quarter of an hour later , several general officers arrived . There was a consultation for half an hour , and then officers rode off in all directions ; and in a few minutes trumpets were sounding , and drums beating , all over the town . `` In a very short time a movement began towards the western gate . By ten o'clock the tents were all struck round the town , the waggons loaded , and they were on their way west . An hour later , and the whole force was in movement in that direction ; and as I issued from the town on this side , I met the cavalry that had been scattered among the villages , galloping in . I do n't think that there is , at the present moment , an enemy within ten miles of Erfurt . '' `` You were in no danger , yourself ? ''