A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Saxony, in the Year 1813: Written Originally in German, Volume 2J. Murray, 1820 - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Page 217 - French batteries were answering, one in front and the other in flank, and Lord Cathcart and Sir R. Wilson were listening to him, when a ball struck his thigh and almost carried his leg off, passed through his horse, and shattered his other leg to pieces.
Page 217 - General Moreau died yesterday. He was in the act of giving some opinion on military matters, while passing with the Emperor of Russia behind a Prussian battery to which two French batteries were answering, one in front and the other in flank, and Lord Cathcart and Sir It.
Page 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.
Page 457 - A part of the army was still on the other side, with a park of &i pieces of artillery and some hundreds of waggons. The advance of this part of the army, who were approaching the bridge, seeing it blow up, conceived it was in the power of the enemy. A cry of dismay spread from rank to rank.
Page 329 - 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.
Page 454 - Nansouty, with 20 pieces of artillery, to take in flank the troops that were advancing along the Partha to attack Leipsic. He proceeded in person with a division of the guards to the village of Reidnitz. The promptitude of these movements restored order. The village was retaken, and the enemy driven to a great distance.
Page 372 - 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...
Page 403 - But nothing could surpass the gallantry, with which it was stormed. The enemy fled from it, only to shelter themselves behind new defences, manning the thick walls of the town, in which it was impossible without a long and continued fire of heavy artillery to make breaches. The enemy with the aid of those means, which a strong town affords of resistance, held the troops in check, who had so gallantly carried and entered the outworks. The night was fast approaching, and the enemy now attempted to...
Page 401 - 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...
Page 407 - 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...