The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-03 00:00:00

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enemy, whirl', after the defeat oldie French Army at Krasnoi, had Nov. 14.—Geeetal Plato.i a. p its that on the Pete, some ei ttie
sated itself by fl;glit, and passed over to the right hank of the enemy's troops, which he had separated from the corps under Marshal
Dnieper, in order to come up again with the main bo.iv• The Nev, and had taken the road to Lonhawitetz, surrendered to the num-
Count made three thousand prisoners, Among whom is the late ber ofeight hundred men. The enemy's loss in prisoners, was, indeed,
Chief Commissary General at Smolensk° de Puiltuslue. In a se- 'o very great, that he found it was unnecessary to make any particular
tend report, General neat* states, that, continuing on the 7th, report on the occasion, as it seldom occurred that he took less than a
his route to DorOtrowna he was informed that M arshal N:y thousand prisoners each day.
't was marching with the remains of his corps to Loubawitch, and had Colonel Potemkin' belonging to General Millaradovitch's van-
been seen in the afternoon at Gousuireff. Havioe occupied this place guard, in his report of the 13th, states, that Major-General KarpoW
with his Cossacks on the left, General Plata' ordered masked bar- 1 teal assembled six hundred prisoners at Zolotschma, and that at. Kos-
.. tcries to be raised on the road ; and having permitted the enemy to tel they had found one hundred tschetwerts of rye. -
advance, he su 'eerily opened upon them a tremendous fire of grape- On the 13th General Platolfreports that Lieutenant General Wart-
slice, so that confuure!cd, and seeing it impossible to pierce through to mott having attacked the enemy, with Major-General Koutenikott's
Loubawitzch, they threw themsc Ives into the woods on the banks of brigade, as he was marching on the high road, killed five hundred of
the Dnieper, and covering their march by chasst;urs, pressed along l them, and made few hundred prisoners, amongst whom was General
the bank of the river until the night was far advanced ; and threw Dlewortsky.
into it the four pieces of cannon they had with them. The headequarters were at Staroselije. .
The Bth, at about six o'clock in the morning, the advanced guard Nov. 15.—L ie utenant-Gene ra I Schefelert's report of the 10th states,
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came up with the enemy in advance of Dombrowna. He was aptly that the major part of the merchants pf Ratslaff Polosotr, together
rece.ved with grape shot on coming out of a forest on the road. Our with the citizens of that town, animated by the love of their country,
Cossacks, profiting by the disarder of tire enemy, and the well di- had equipped a detachment of one hundred cavalry ; and having armed
rected tire of our attallery, attacked with the lance, killing many, and them with pikes, swords, and muskets, during the whole of the con-
making eight hundred prisoners, among which was a Commissary- tinuance of the military operations in the government of Smolensicri,
General and ten officers. Marshal Ney, seeing his total defeat, threw they had made several c xcursions, in which they had had many
himself into the fereqs, and collecting the troops whom the attack alEurs with the enemy, with advantage to themselves, by which
of our Cossacks II id diseersed, he occupied the village' of jaroubutl, means they in tact saved their town from being plundered.
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- .1- where be defended himself with obstinacy, until bight, which put an
end to the combat. The head-quarters at Krouglo.
Nov. 10 —General Count Platoff reports, on the 9th, fhat dlliillg REPORT OF ADMIRAL TCHICH AGOFF, ON THE ROAD OF OSTACHERN
the eursuit of the enemy to Orsha lie made tour hundred prisoners. ON THE `.ail II OF NOVEMBER.
1 The enemy defends the passage of the river with iris artille‘y, e. bile Seeirg the possibility of communicating directly with St. Petersburg,.
Iv I lie gives tire town up to the flames. The Partisan Davidoff ettacgcd I wait. of ato make known to your Majesty all that has happened,
the enemy en the Pith at Kopys, and killing Fnany, made two hundred since my last Report.—The toliowing day after my arrival at Minsk,
• and eighty-five prisoners, besides taking a quantity ot. e(ltul'atZes ; I reinforced my advanced-euard, and ordered General Lambert to go
4 . passing afterwards the river by swimming, he sent various parties to on the side et Beesowe '
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Sslikloff, Staroselije, and Orsha. On the 21st of November he attacked, at the break of day, the re-.
The Count Platofi'reports, on the 91h, that the enemy had, after , doubts occupied by the rear-guard of General Dombrowsky, who had
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• e sotne resistance, been driaren front Orsha, and that at one o'clock the arrived in great haste from Beresina to take possession of it. The-
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„.. town had lama occupied by our tioops. The enemy left there twenty resistance was vets great ; they fought a long time. and with fury.
nieces of canton, some provisions, and his holeritals, in which were Your Majesty possesses in Count Lambert an active, courageous, and
towel, of 017icers alone, fifty persons, able General, capable of surmounting every difficulty, who having.
On the 11th the Grand Aimee halted at Lannike. perceyed the importance of this post, in which the enemy had col- .
Nov. 12.—The A ide-de. Cam p General Count Oschareffsky re- rected all their force to maintain themselves, decided to take it, and
ports, on the Nth, that haying arrived on the Ittli at Gorhi, he had completely succeeded. Theceemy lost' two thousand men in killed,
i sent 111,ijor K aeelietaky, with the regiments of Cossacks of the Don, and we have made as melee
e- prisoners. The remains of the corps of
of Schantscle fV, and one hundred and fifty hussars, fit pursuit-of the Denribrowaky hive been piirseted and aispersed.
.3 enemy, %elm had just quitted the.place. The Major Rschefsky came In the mean time, whilst my edvanced guard was going from Minsk
tip with and nesrly destroyed them, making four 011ievra and two to Borisow, General Ichaplitz was sent to Lembin to observe the
homdred and fifty solders priseners, and taking many equipages. passage of the Heresina, and Colonel Lotikewkin to take possession
The head-quarters of the army at Morosofi. of every thing that the enemy had' been obliged to abandon. Some
The tiraillcur of the Ist grenadier company of the regiment of in- 1
, n. detachments of D( inbrowsky had really crossed that •iver. Colonel
faatry of Moscow, ti,eean leremenl:o, bad been left, in order to be i
!'. cued of the wounds he had receivee at Smolensk°, to the care of the , lenikowkin attacked them, and took from threat a Colonel, many
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principal of that Govern eeat, the Sub-Lieutenant Krestscheroff.—
The passage of the river near borisow had been judged se important .‘.
After his cure ha:} been complex d, ald during the retreat of the
-1 that the enemy turned towards it all his attention. In consequence,
. Freneh, a detachment of forty Seven men passed by the villages of ,
Oudinot was detached to reioetrce Dombrowsky, bet the tete-do-
M lethino and Polsino. He immediately assembled the peasants of
• pont established on this side rendered fruitless all their endeavours.
... those places, and enceuraeiog them by his exam, le, he killed seven of
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the forty-seven ; and !teeing bound with cords Ihe forty remaining, The enemy, detei mined to tutee Iris passage, made demonstrations
• he sent them with the peasants to the out• posts of the Cossacks.— mien mai.), ;dint and and lie succeeded at last in finding a very. strong •
. a The said tereinciike hayite., by to courageous air action, shown his position, at thirteen yersts twin Burisow, where he placed a battery
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ti, zeal for the service, :ne given a ;trout of the spirit welch chase- of thirty pieces ot cannon, having on its flanks marshes and heighte.
s- • tetises the Russian soldier, his Highness the General Field Marshal lie effected the passage of the rive r tinder the protection of his butte-
, has advanced him to the rank of Subaltern Officer, and has likewise ries, so as to render it impossibe !Or us to prevent it, particularly as
i given him the badge of the Military Order of ' St. George . the river, at the place N7her::. lief ell..cted his passage, was very narrow
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, PROCEEDINGS OF Tug MILITA AY OPERATIONS OF -flit: RUSSIAN On the .rit It and 'Nth we !lewd a cannonade, first on the right anti
ARMY, FROM TILE 13tIt 1O THE 1661 NOVEMBER. I then on the left. 'II Ire Conn! a ‘i. ittgenstein and Platclf ;entrenched.
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• Nov. 13.—The Aide de-Camp General Count Oseharoffsky, as he II Commtuncatiens were estehlidied between us. On the 2i4th I at-
was proceedinc on the loth, with part of the detachment mulct Ids li laaed the enemy in front, at :16., S:tIlle tittle that Wittgenstein found
1 cominaed, from eichkholl towards Mohilow, was informed by some of I himself already eugaaed with the troops which defended the passage
the inhabitants, who had left that place, that the enemy's Hoops of the river on the opposite side. Soule prisoners informed us Nae
which had remained there had threatened to set on fire all within their poleen was hi person at this battle, with all his force, e tech amount-
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reach. In consequeie eof this information, Comet Oscharoffiky, Cd fa about event). thousand men. The corps of Oudinot and `actor,
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without loss of time, ordered on the Cossacks from Palta a, mountcd 1 that ft,rmed mut they it were CnlllpoSed of soldiers who had not eta.-
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the riflemen, and arrived before eight, with his cavalry and a.tillerv, fered much, as 'were still ptovieled both with artillery and
in time to aave the town, from whence he immediately drove the i cavalry.
enemy-. thus, at the same time relieving the place, and many large
magazines which it contained, 'from the danger with which it was 4 ve verets with the
The guard of Napoleon is likewise in tolerable conditien. The
enemy Was drii,•en beek to the distance of tour or .1 . •
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threatened.
Another part of the detachment, under the orders of the Staabs- loss of one came,' , in.ttly officers, some huedreds of pr ,
considerable rut killed.
Roftmcisters of the hussars of the guards, NatSchakin, lv ki c h lied Lieutenant-Cc-need Sacker, whom I left in the environs of Bruit,
been sent on by the road to Knaeschmtzi, cam m
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has executed Inv orders. The Prince of Senwartzenberg has tw-ce
on their retreat front that place, attacked then, and took one officer
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hed Slonim ; but General eackep havieg attacked Regnier two
se tied 100 men prisoners_,_ putting the rest to flight, whom they pursued dAys successively, force" hint to retreat and join Prince Schwaitzed-
for six versts beyond Knaeschnitzi.
berg.
In the magazines at Mohilow, there were 34,000 kouls of provision' Lieut.-General Replier has lost one pair of COlOlll4 and I,OJt) ?
prisoners.
and forage.•
General Millaradrviteh reports, that, on the 12th, he shall be with l hive. just learnt that the eoerny is retreating., fl annron t,
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bay rug :ost one more cannon and sena: baggage.
part of his van-guard at Tototschin. .
The Grand Army halted at Kopye. • • • • pie then.. • . •
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