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events and capitulations belong hot to this piefert
which comprehends only the four principal corps of
the Prussian army which were left after the battle
The 0 se, i s which were the King and General
Count V n K olkreuth, reached the Oder, and with-
drew amass it to Grandeur., in West Prussia. Lew
fortunate were fie three other corps of Prince
lionenlolte, Duke Eugene of Wirtemherg, and the
Duke cf Size-Weimar. Those Generals were un-
able to gain the river.
The first of them, who, even in misfortune,
maintained the military honour he had acquired on
issuny occasioni, conduCted his troops, that had
formed the left wing in the battle of Jena, by forced
matches, by way of Boizenbnrg and Schunermark,
yowled. the Oder. He was not far from it, when
.attack-d on the heights of Prenzlau, by a
:auperioi force, which drove him back from the bank
of the 'rivet, and forced him into a situation in
which a longer defence, on the part of himself and
his brave followers, who were quite exhausted, and
without ammunition or provisions, would have been
total}, hair ailicable.
Duke Eugene of Wittemherg was, Ise!: re the
• babble, advancing in all haste, by way or Halle and
Meraelaarg, to the support of the main army. He
arrived two days too late. Napoleon's sagacity had
struck the decisive blow before this corps of reserve,
-020,003 men, could join the Prussians. The Prince
.of Ponte Corvo now marched against the Prlo-e of
Wirtemberg, took Halle by ratm, and drove the
Prussians out of the city, who the.. lost 5000 men and
S 4 pieces of carmen. After this aftion, Lieur..Gen.
Blucher assumed the command of the Wlrtemberg
corps, given to him on the 24:h of aßober by the
Prince of Hoheolohe. His intention, which he pro-
seemed in spite of continual engagements, was like-
wise to reach the Oder, and to join the Prince ; but
bearing on his march, that the latter bad been
obliged to capitulate at Prenslaa, he, with extra-
ordinary resolptioe and presence of mind, changed
plait;his the sole obje& of which now was to
draw off, 'by his movensents, the French force from
the Oder, and to remove them from the heart of the
Prussian Monarchy, in order to gain timer for the
supplying of the fortresses with provisions, for the
approach of the remaining Prussian troops, and the
arrival-of the Russian army.
With this view he marched of with his corps,
19,510 strong, to the left, through the duchy of
Mecklenburg, where he was joined, quite unexped-
, edly, beyond Swett*, by thefoarth division, which
bad previously Dews eontraanded by tke Dative of
Weimar. After this junefion, he proceeded rapidly
throng's le whole of Mecklenburg, towards the
H, was closely followed by the Grand-Duke
of Berg, the Prince of Ponte Corvo, and Marshal
Snult, with a great force dispatched in pursuit of
Sucher by Napoleon, indignant that Gen. Klein's
division of dragoons had suffered him to escape.—
Prince Murat was on his left flank, Marshal Seult
On the right, and Bernadotte in front. Ir. this cri-
tical situation, which forbade him to hazard a battle,
General Blucher threw himself, on the sth of Nov.
into Lubeck, where, supported by the Trave, he hoped
to make a stand for a few days. On the following
day, however, the French forced a passage into Lu-
beck, through the Burg Gate, took the city by storm,
and after a tremendous carnage, drove out the
Prussians, who there lost 6000 men. After this
dente:live conflid, the gallant General Blucher,
Who, with the 9,400 men he had left, after fourteen
days incessant fighting, now saw himself surround-
ed by a force many times superior in number, was
unable to m eke any further resistance. The capi-
tulation was concluded at Rotkau, a village in the
principality of Lubeck. It surrendered to the
French a corps, which, according to their statement,
amounted to 14,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry, and
had AO pieces of cannon.
These, said Napoleon's Order of the Day, were
thb last Prussians on this side of the Vistula. The
fortresses which they intended to rescue fell im-
me hate)! one after the other. Spandau capitulated
sin the 25th of °Robes; Cuorin on the 31st ; Mag-
deburg on the sth of November ; and the. formal
surrerraer of Hameln was at hand. In Spandau
sere were 1200 men, and great quantities of mal-
t try stores ; in Custrin 4000 men, 90 pieces of can-
non, and considerable magazines; in Magdeburg
20,C00 men, IS Generals, a park of artillery of
more than Soo pieces of ordnance, ltc.
The unexpoSelly rapid fall of these fortresses,
some of which were considered as impregnable, se-
cured to the French army the possession of the
states of the Prussian Monarchy. Its elegant cApi-
-1461, the in:teal:mats of which were, on the 19th of
Oaoiper, prepared for the event by a public Pro-
clamation of the Prince of Hatzfeld, witnessed,
on the 27th, the splenitd entry of the Emperor
Napoleoa. Meanwhile, Marhals Davi:oust and
Lannes edoarized into the Palish provinces, beyond
Posen, toward the Viotti', where the Proclamation
ot the eatinguit'l..3 nation of the Poles, justifies the
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