Northern Campaigns, from the Commencement of the War in 1812, to the Armistice Signed and Ratified June 4, 1813: With an Appendix, Containing All the Bulletins Issued by the French Ruler During this Contest, Etc, Volume 2P. Martin and Company, 1813 - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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advanced-guard Allies arms arrived artillery attack avoit Barclay de Tolly Baron battalions batteries Bautzen Belluno Bertrand Blucher Bragation bridge brigade BULLETIN commanded corps Cossacks Count D'York debouched defend Denmark division Dresden Drissa Duke of Ragusa Duke of Reggio Duke of Tarentum Dwina Eckmuhl Elbe Elchingen enemy enemy's étoit field of battle fire following intelligence force France Françoise French army général GRAND ARMY Great-Britain guard Hamburg head-quarters honour Hoyerswerda infantry killed King of Naples King of Sweden l'armée l'Empereur Lauriston leagues light cavalry Lutzen Majesty the Emperor Majesty the Empress marched Minister Mohiloff morning Moscow o'clock occupied officers Paris pieces of cannon Pomerania position Prince of Eckmuhl Prince of Moskva prisoners Queen and Regent Ragusa rear-guard received the following Regent has received regiment Russian army Smolenzk Sweden Swedish Tarentum tion took Torgau town treaty Treviso troops Viceroy Vilia village Vitepsk Volhynia Weissenfels Wilna Witgenstein wounded
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Page 50 - The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty signed this day.
Page 8 - His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great...
Page 100 - Colonel Michand, one of his Aides-de-Camp, to direct the movements; and the French were driven back as far as the defile of the mountains by which they made the attack. " The engagement which the enemy had maintained on the points before mentioned lasted until ten o'clock at night, with an uninterrupted fire of...
Page 102 - Dann marched to the battle and victory of Hochkirch. Some strong commanding heights, on which batteries had been constructed, near the village of Jackowitz, and separated from the chain of mountains by streams* and marshy ground, formed the appui to the left flank of the position. Beyond, and in front of it, many batteries were pushed forxvard, defended by infantry and cavalry, on a ridge that projected into the low ground, near the Spree River.
Page 47 - VI. As a reciprocal consequence of what has been stipulated in the preceding article, his majesty the king of Sweden engages to grant, for the space of twenty years, to take date from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, to the subjects of his Britannic majesty, the right of entrepot...
Page 17 - His Majesty the King of Sweden engages to employ a corps of not less than 30,000 men, in a direct operation upon the continent against the common enemies of the two high contracting parties. This army shall act in concert with the Russian troops placed under the command of his royal highness the Prince Royal of Sweden, according to stipulations to this effect already existing between the courts of Stockholm and St.
Page 114 - Lutzen, where they triumphantly stood and conquered, and from which the difficulty of getting up ammunition alone obliged them to retire, they .had executed the passage of the Elbe, than which no more difficult operation can be conceived, in the presence of a superior enemy, and traversed an extent of country of nearly 300 miles, retiring, contending position after position, and carrying with them between 6 and 700 pieces of cannon, without losing a gun or sacrificing any of their baggage.
Page 118 - To whom this proposition was addressed, in what manner, in what diplomatic form, through whose organ it could have been done, was perfectly unknown to the Austrian Cabinet, which only was made acquainted with the circumstance...
Page 329 - Cossacks ambushes. The Cossacks have taken numbers of isolated persons, of geographical engineers, who were taking positions, and of wounded officers, who were marching without precaution, preferring running the risk, to marching slowly, and going with the convoy. The reports of the General Officers, commanding the different corps, will make known what officers and soldiers have chiefly distinguished themselves, and the details of these memorable events. In all these movements the Emperor has been...
Page 48 - The ratifications of the present treaty shall be exchanged 'at Stockholm within four weeks, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which, we, the undersigned, in virtue of our full powers; have signed the present treaty, and have affixed thereto the seal* of our arms.