The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-16 00:00:00

JULY -- Vienna; that pi: o4.ll.lo.•rsencreased tnere . every -boor, awl- that he seemed. to he. entplit Ved ia..throu . ing a bridge across the great arm of the banuhe behind the Island. from the top of the ilivanitr . .K . 7, • the s hole. of the • opp t isite country appeared to he eal..loped in a el,„‘a(;t• dust. taad the glitter of arm- evia:e'l a V' ti Aral moveair:3 of troops beyond Summering, toivards e Kakor Ehervdort,, whither, aceordi,og to later ise cou'uts., the Finperor N:.Poletin had removed his head-quarters, and uas ti v hi*preigenee na4enlog and. promoting the prepara tions for plioiag the r ver. • On thefnlto.: - ig suoroing, at day-break. the . Archduke re solved to reConOtiitre the island, and employ for this purpose part of she advnoe-d gunrd, under the command of Field- Marshal Lieutoant Coutkt Klenau t supported by some regiments Of cavalry,. The lilte-of Lobais forms a convenient place of arms; which is about sir r.oglr,ll miles.long,and four and a half broad, and bein4 separate 1 ley the Large aria ofthe Datitthe from the right brink, nothia.; prevents the.. buildin„; of a bridge, which is con cealed 6y iroand covered with . bw.hes ; and the great extent of the i.laad afirds the advantage ..f sending troops and ordnance frr,m so Mil* points lif it, that the passage across the smaller arm to the large plain'of Marchfield, may be made good by force of arms. It was soon perceived by the strength of the enemy's Co. lumns Which advanced upon the island, and placed their can non so as to sit pptirt the second passage, that he meditated a serious attack. l'he advanced guard sustained a tolerably warm lengagerten., and the cavalry routed the first division of the cue which deboriched from the low .grounds on the edge of the riser, late in the evening; Ilium which the Archduke, whose joiSitution was not to prevent the passage a the enetn, but to sttritck him 4he following day, retreated with his cavalry to Andeiiklaa, and ordered the advanced troops to fall bark to 111.ias, according as the enemy should extend himself, On the 214 at .11y-break the Archduke ordered his army under 'arms, and formed it in two lines on the rising ground behind Gerasrlorf, and between the Ilisarn-hill and the rivulet Russ. The corps of Lieut.-0m Hiller formed the right wing near Stammersdia; on its left was the corps of the General of Ca valry Count Bellegarde, and neat to that the corps of Lieut.- Gen. Prince Hohenzollern ? in the alignemsit of Deutsch, Wit gram. The corps of Prince Rosenberg was-posted by battalions in columns on the Russbach on the rivulet Ross, kept Deutsch- Wagram strongly occupied, having,. for the security of the left wing, placed on the heights beyond that place f a division iu re, serve, The whole cavalry, which the day before had advanced under the command of Prince Lichtenstein by Anderklaa, was called back into the line, tiling, in two lines, the space inter vening between the left wing of Prince linhenzollern and the right of Princt• Rosenberg. • The vast plain of the - Marchfield spreAd like a carpet before the front of the line, and appeared, by the absenceof every ob struction, to be destined to form the theatre. of some great event. The grenadiers remained in reserve year Seiering, and the corps of the General of Artillery Prince of Reuss kept the Bisam-hill and the low baldly ground along the Danube strongly occupied. Part of it wogs still left nearKreuis, the corps being almost-, broke up by having so many of itsdlvisions detached to so con? siderableii distance. At nine' o'clock, the Archduke ordered . the arms to be piled, and the troops to dine. The piquet of observation on the lli am hill reported that the bridge across the Danube behind•the Isle Lobay, being now quite finished, was plainly perceivAble, and that tinaps were without. intermission seen filing off oyer• it, .as. well•as passing in boats, to the Isle. The , outposts,:likevyise 'gave information of the . grashial angasFritatinuef the4nemy in the town of Eniersdorf and iu the v illages - qf Essling nrol:A•spero.. and of, his advancing toivardi Iltrsehstetteti. The Arehdelke . Charles_now.thouplit the moment for.o b iving battle lied l ard ved, and hastened . to Oerasdorf, where.. the Chief of his Quarter-' waster-General's Stall; general Macon Wlmpfen, sketched out the followin plan. . • • -1•: PLAN GDP' ATTACK UPON' . THE HOSTTI.E ARMY ON ITS MARCH 13 . ETWEF,N ESSLING' A.ND PERN, AND .TOVVAADS II IRSCIPITETT2::N. The'attack to be made in five columns, The first telumn or the column of the tight wing, ii foriied by .the corps of •Lieute tint- General Hiller. •It wil; advance from its present,position in the direction between th,e " Point"•and Lcopoldau along the nearest arms of the Danube, pasi along the left bank tow ants Stadelau and Aspern, keep constantly near the Danube and the aiendows bordering upon it, and vigorously to repulse the enemy, THE NATIONAL *REGISTER. •••• . •f• •••• • *** "•,. . . . who most likely will meat it on tbo same road, and to drive Bills from the left bank. This column must not safer its progress to he impeded by the batteries which the enemy perhaps may hays -meted on the [sheds, but mustendeavour to silence them by its onon, and spiritedly Continue to adVance. The second column ••04sists of the corps of the General of Cavalry Count Belle. ; leaving Gerasdorf to the left, it will march towards Leopoldito, endeavour to join the first column on the right, ad .vauce upon Kagran, and then, conjointly with the third column, upon the left, push forwards towards ilirschstetien. The third column is composed of the corps of Lientenant- General Prince lioheuzollera. It will march by Suiseebritam to Breiteuiee, and from thence towards Aspern, and will endeavour to josh on its right the second colnum, and on its left the fourth. The fourth column, under the command of Lieutenant-General .Prince Rosenberg, is made tip of that part of his corps which is posted en the right bank of the rivulet Russ: it i, to advance, by Anderklaa and Raschdorf, towards Essling. The fifth column is formed by that part of Prince Rosenberg's corps which stands between Deutsch-Wagram and Ileaumersdorf. It will cross the Russ near Beaumersdorf, leave Rasehdorf and Bischdorf to the right, endeavour to pass to the left, round the town of Enzers dorf, and secure its left Bank by the Arc:aluke Ferdinand's re giment of hussars. The cavalry reserve, under the command of General 'Prince Lichtenstein, to march by the way of Anderklan, :without coming in contact with the fourth - column, between Rasdhdorf-and Breitenlee, and strait to the New Inn, keeping continually at such a distance between the heads of the third and fourth columns as in case of HeCess ity to be near al hand, for the purpose of, repelling the main body of the enemy's cavalry.— The grenadier corps of reserve to march from Seieriug into the position which the corps or Bent-garde has taken up behind' Gerasdorf. All the columns and corps will march sit twelve o'clockat noon. Their second lines to follow them at a suitable distance. &very column to form its own advanced guard. The order of march, and the distribution of the field pieces, to be Left-to the judgm of the Commanders of the reveaive corps. The whole will march by kat f divisions. Lieutenaut-General Klenau to form the advanced guard of the fourth and fifth columns, and, before he advances, to suffer the heads of these columns to come quite up to him, in order that he may have at hand a sufficient support of infantry. Of the corps of cavalry, the brigade under the command of Veesey to be attacbedto the second column, and the regiment O'Reilly to the third t and both brigades are to repair immediately, the former to Gerasdorf, and the• latter to Sussenbrunrs. The principal object ip view i s t o drive back the enemy entirely over the first arm of the Danube, destroy the bridges he has thrown over them, and occupying the Bank of the Lobau with a numerous artillery, especially howitzers. The infantry will form on the plain in battalions, with half divisions from the centre. Ilis Imperial Highness the General in Chief recomtnends order, closeness during the advance, and a proper use ofevery species of arms. -Ii: station will be with the secand column. Gerasdorf, May 21, 1809. The ist Column consisted of 19 Mttalions, 22 Squadrons, 2d - • 20 3d - - 22 4th . . 13 bib - - , , 13 The Corps of Cavalry The Corps of Grenadiers - ••••••••• • Total 103 Illttalion! 1413 Squadrons. nll wtAch amounted t►► 75,000 tnett effective troops. • Of urtillery, there Were eighteen baitcries of brigade, thirteen of position, and Atwell' of horse artillery ; in the aggregate two hundred apel eighty-pieces of different calibres. • The enemy had availed himself extremely well of the advan tages of the ground to cover his passage. The extensive villages of lEssiiit and Aspern, mo- sly composed of brick howes, and encircled all round with heaps of enrth, resembled two bastions, between which ethyl:lWe list of natural trenches. intended to draw etf•the water, served as the curtain, and afforded every possible security to the columns passing front the Isle of l.ohau. Essling h a d a granary furnished with loep-hules, and whose three stories afforded teem for several lincidred men, while Aspern was prow vide4- with i strong church-yard. The left side df t latter illage borders 011 an arm of . the Danube. Ruth villages bad a sktf- colomuitication *kbe tire lissity• traiiiid near ti‘e Dar 1)e, from which the enemy had it censtatitly la his power to dispatch, unseen, fresh rrinforcemcnts. The Isle of Lobau served Cs as a phlte of arms and as a tete de pont, a bridge-lion fi r •.:~ 4 1