To the Emperor alone Clung Friedland in that storm which gather'd round him At Regensburg in the Dietand he dropp'd thee!

Napoleon After the painting by Paul Delaroche. "1807," Napoleon at Friedland After the painting by E. Meissonier.

Saxony had been stripped of troops by Arnheim, who was pursuing his conquests in Silesia; not without a secret design, it was generally supposed, of favoring the entrance of the Duke of Friedland into that electorate and of thus driving the irresolute John George into peace with the Emperor.

Maximilian, defeated on the Lech and deprived by death of Count Tilly, his best support, urgently solicited the Emperor to send with all speed the Duke of Friedland to his assistance from Bohemia, and, by the defence of Bavaria, to avert the danger from Austria itself.