ABSTRACT
We arrived at Vienna, where it was proposed we should take up our winter-residence, in expectation of another campaign to commence in the spring of 1718. We had no succeeding campaign. The war was substantially at an end. The scenes we had anticipated never occurred. But on the other hand how great a variety of events, which we had never in slightest degree foreseen, did we encounter! / The next eighteen months constituted the most critical and momentous period of my life.
