A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Saxony, in the Year 1813: Written Originally in German, Volume 2

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Pagina 44 - With these words he rushed, at the head of a few Polish cuirassiers and the officers surrounding him, upon the advancing columns of the allies. He had been previously wounded on the 1 4th and 1 6th, and on this occasion also received a musket-ball in his left arm.
Pagina 327 - Not a horse, not a cow, not a sheep, is now to be seen; nay, several species of animals appear to be wholly exterminated in Saxony. I have myself lost a flock of 2000 Spanish sheep, Tyrolese and Swiss cattle, all my horses, waggons, and household utensils. The very floors of my rooms were torn up; my plate, linen, and important papers and documents, were carried away and destroyed. Not a looking-glass, not a pane in the windows, or a chair, is left.
Pagina 405 - Bruch in different columns. It is impossible not to lament that so fine and so numerous an army, perfectly entire in all its parts, should be under the necessity, having once advanced, of making a retrograde step, as miscalculations' may be made on the event, and the enemy may suppose he has gained an advantage; I can only pledge myself to Your Lordship, that the army is as eager as ever to meet the enemy, and the same determined spirit exists, ilicn-'.li a partial change of operations may he deemed...
Pagina 455 - ... first movement of the enemy. Half an hour after, the emperor repaired to Lindenau, there to await the evacuation of Leipsic, and to see the last troops pass the bridges before putting himself in march. Meanwhile the enemy was speedily apprised that the greater part of the army had evacuated Leipsic, and that there remained there only a strong rear-guard.
Pagina 399 - The enemy met the allies on the frontiers, and have been beaten back from all their positions, towards Dresden, although they endeavoured unsuccessfully to defend every inch of ground. The different columns of the Allied Armies were to debouche from the mountains and passes, at such, concerted periods as would probably have operated fatally upon the enemy, if the arrangement...
Pagina 403 - ... ^Towards the middle of the day a catastrophe occurred .which awakened more than ordinary sensibility and regret throughout the allied army. General Moreau, in earnest conversation with the Emperor of Russia on the operations, had both his legs carried off by a cannon shot, the ball going through his horse : an equal loss both to the good cause, and to the profession of arms.
Pagina 44 - ... his horse behind in the river. Though much exhausted he mounted another, and proceeded to the Elster, which was already lined by Saxon and Prussian riflemen. Seeing them coming upon him on all sides, he plunged into the river, and instantly sunk, together with his horse. Several officers, who threw themselves in after him, were likewise drowned; and others were taken on the bank or in the water. The body of the prince was found on the fifth day (Oct.
Pagina 397 - My last dispatches will have acquainted Your Lordship of the determination of the Allied Armies, to debouche from Bohemia by the several passes into Saxony, and enter on immediate offensive operations in flank and rear of the enemy, if he still maintained his forward positions in Lusatia and remained on the right bank of the Elbe. While the main Russian army under General Barclay de Tolly...
Pagina 433 - Russian reserve had broken ground in its front, which rendered it impossible for the cuirassiers to meet him with the velocity they desired ; but the cavalry of Count Wittgenstein's corps, and attached to it, attacked him in flank, and he retired with as much precipitation as he advanced. During the preparation of Murat's attack, the Austrian cavalry was greatly distinguished ; they made nine charges on the enemy's right, in some of which they swept ihe whole front with great slaughter. The Russian...
Pagina 370 - Tilsit ; but even of the severest titles of that treaty, not one has been kept with us. Every following treaty increased the hard conditions of the preceding one. For this reason we have thrown off the shameful yoke, and advance to the heart-cheering combat for our liberty. • " Saxons ! ye are a noble, enlightened people ! You know, that without independence, all the good things of this life are, to noble minds, of little value — that subjection is the greatest disgrace. You neither can nor will...

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