nine o'clock at night
Prince Karl , after taking Schweidnitz , had fallen with sixty thousand men on Bevern . He had crossed by five bridges across the Loe , but each column was met by a Prussian force strongly intrenched . For the space of fifteen hours the battles had raged , over seven or eight miles of country . Five times the Austrians had attacked , five times had they been rolled back again ; but at nine o'clock at night they were successful , more or less , in four of their attacks , while the Prussian left wing , under the command of Ziethen , had driven its assailants across the river again . During the night Bevern had drawn off , marched through Breslau , and crossed the Oder , leaving eighty cannon and eight thousand killed and wounded -- a tremendous loss , indeed , when the army at daybreak had been thirty thousand strong . Bevern himself rode out to reconnoitre , in the gray light of the morning , attended only by a groom , and fell in with an Austrian outpost . He was carried to Vienna , but being a distant relation of the emperor , was sent home again without ransom .