The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-29 00:00:00

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OFFICIAL RKPORT
OP THE OPERATIONS OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY
OF THE LOWER. RHINE.

taken direction; which led tlierii to defilos, In 'which
they necessarily tell into disorch4; in this manner

15plitees. fell into the hands of the enemy. At the.,
theormy formed.again. distanced a quarter of • league from the field oC
It was on the 15th of this month that Napoleon, !battle,
after having collected on the 14th five corps of his , The mammy did not veuturito pursue it. The
army, and the several corps of the guard, between ' village of Brie remained le our poasession daring the'
Mauheuge and Beaumont, commenced ' hostilities. night, is well es Sombref, viliareGeneral Thielmants
The points of concentration of the four Prussian had fought with the 3d corps, and whence he at day-
break stewly began to retreat towards Gembloet, 1
corps were, Fleurus, Namur, Ancy, and Bennet;
the situation of which made it possible to smite the . whete the 4th corps under General Bulow bp,d,at
army in one of these pekoe in 24 hours.. ' length arrived during the night. The ast end 24
On the 15th, Napoleon advanced bit Thuin upon *ups proceeded in the morning behind the defile of
the two banks of the Sambre against, qatlenii. Gee. Meant St. Golbstet. Our loss in killed and wounded
Zeithen had collected the first cops' siearlitrerut, -*ar great, the enemy hoWever took from as no prie
end had on that day a very warm action with the &am, except a part of our wounded.
enemy, who, after having taken Chatistrisi. directed ;. The cattle was tole, het not oar honour. Oor
his march upon Flettrus. Gen. Zeithent =basin's( icildiete had taril4 Witt' a brevet/ which equilted
himself in his position near that place, . • . , strawy eapectatiou ; their fortitude remained unshaken,
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Field-Marshal Blucher, intending to fight a great because esti). one retained his confidence in his own
battle with the enemy as soon as possible, the three staling& On this day Field-Marshal Blucher bad
other corps of the Plumley' army were consequently entoaritered the greatest dangers. A charge of ca.
directed upon Sombref, a league and a hear frog eidry, led en by maim' Quid failed, while that of the
'Flee rus, whore the second and third corps were ettelity :was vigorously pursuing, a musket shot struck
arrive on the 15th, and the fourth torpor sok the the Field-illistsliers, hone. The animal far from be.
16th. ' leg stopped is Ms career by (Ms wound began to
Lord Wellington bad united his army between Mk iliellop more furiously till it dropped down dead.—
and !green's, which enabled him to assist Field.- egieid-lillsiabalt stuheed by the violent fall, lay
Metaled Blucher in case the battle should be fought iwarasigted soder the'hoese. The enemy's cuirassiers
on the 15th. ' following 'tip their advantage achieved ; our last
BATTLE OF LIGNY. homemaaimadolteedy passed by tilt Field-Marshal ;
' June the 16th, the Prussian army was posted on 'an Martingale's' reemised meth him end had just
the heights between Brie said Sombref, ancitheyond alighted molted to share his fete. The danger was
the last place, sad occupied with a large force the: gm*, bottsflea. wen watchedever us. The enemy par-
villages of St. Amend and Ligny, situated on its front. hutting their charge pasted repidty by the Field-
'Meantime only three corps of theater kid 'joined ;Ikeda! viithoritieeing Mm'; the nest moment a se-
the fourth, which was stationed betwdee Liege eitilitind Ames of esercenky having repelled them they
Bennet, hid been delayed in its march by soma tile.seigaler poised:byabinsaeitit the sates precipitatiori, not
cumstances, and was not yet come up. • Neeerthelettai perceiseiog Mgt aornserartlaan they bad done the first
Field-Marshal Blucher resolved to give battle.—.lthne,
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Lord Wellington having already put In motion to I Theo; biit iletlrititOut difficulty, the Field-Marshal
support him a strong division of hliarmy, as well at hie • was AillSiralperplorfrunder 'the dead horse, and he
strati reserve stationed in the environs of Braise's, rininueib e
itiliatisted a dragoon horse. ' .
and the froth corps of the Prussian army beintliteo I 0n%bei27111,-• in. tbe evening, the iPteasipe *raj,
on the point of arriving. • . ..;:- -es ,I•concettteated !metals the environs of Wayne. N.
. The battle began at three P. 11. Mummy hegeght !folios% oils himself io motion against Lord Welling:.
op. above 130,000 men-the Prussian army, was too, upon the Amin road leading from Charleroi to
i #O,OOO strong. The village of St. Arnaud was the jitreasels. 'An English division maintained on the
! first point attacked by the enemy, who vitalist, It, !semi day, near Quartre•Bias, a very severe contest
i after a vigorous resistance. He then directed his I witlitthe enmity. Lord 'Wellington had taken a po.
' efforts 'against Ligny—it is a large eititree, saiidlYishintroo the road to Brostels, having his right wing
built, situated on a rivulet of the sereetteose. -nit sots :-leeniegaspon Bruerie-lar,Leo, the centre near Mount
there that a contest began, which woo tie cenaidered f St. Jams, and the left, win; against La Hay i Sainte.
; as one of the ate* *WWI reeeee4444terg.7.tlksal Wellington irote:to .theriefOr-Mstshai that he
Villagei have often been tirliviand 'rifted, bit here waif eliaaertertei move thy footsie ia this position ft
the battle' continued for five hours in the villages' the fielri.Marshal would support him • tins two
themselves, and the movements forwards or back- cored of his- army. The• Field-Marshal ,promised to
wards were confined to a very tostale* spa*. On come with his whole army. Ile even proposed, in ...
both• sides fresh troops centinoefity MOO ap. each ease, Napoleon should not attack, that, the Allies At Genappe the enemy had inirencheil himself
army had behind the part of the village which it oc. themselves, with their whole united, force, should with carmen, and overtavned carriages at our ap.
copied great masses of infantry, which maint•titied the i attack him the neat day. This may serve to show proach, we suddenly eased in the town a great noise
combat, and were continually renewed by the rein- how little the battle of the 16th had disorganised the salt Motion of carriages, at 'the sentrance sat' were
i forcements which they received from their rear, as , Prussian army or weakened its moral strength—thus evened toe brisk fi:e of musketry, we roptied,by,
well as from the heights en the right and left. About tended the day of the 17th. Isom@ cannon shot, followed by a hurrah,m
and, a;
j 200 cannon were diricted from both sides against the BATTLE OF THE 18TH. . 1 instant after the town was ours.
village, which was set on tire in several places at At break of day the Prussian army again begun It was here that, among many 'other setpripsigits,
once. From time to time the combat extend-Ito move.' The 4th and 24 corps marched by St. t the carriage of Napoleon' was tattoo ; Isoishrtiefelt
ed along the whole of the tine; the enemy having 1 Lambert, where they were to take a position, co-' to mount on horseback; and in hilt harry; bed for.
also directed troops against the -three corps ; vered by the forest, near Frichemont, to take the gotten in it his sword and hat. • The/ the affair gen-
however, the main combat was against Ligny.— enemy in the rear when the moment should 'ppm tinned till break of day. About 40,600 men in
Things seemed to take a favourable turn for the ' favourable. The lit corps was to operate by Ohaia, the most complete disorder ; the remains of the
Prussian troops—a part of the village of St. on the right flank of the enemy. The 3d corps was ' whole army have saved themselves by aetteatfeg
Amend having been retaken from the French by a to follow slowly, in. order •to afford succour in case through Charleroi, partly without ems, mid carry.
battalion commanded by the Field-Marshal in per- of need. The battle began about 10 A. M. ling with them only 27 pieces of their 'numerous ar.
son: in consequence of which advantage we had re- The English army occupied the heights of Mount St. ' tillery.
gained the height which tad been abandoned after Jean, that of the French was on the heights before 1 The enemy in his flight has passed Ali his for..
the loss of St. remand. Nevertheless the battle con. I- Planchmort ; the former was about 80,000 strong, . tresses, the only defence of our frontiers, which are
tinued about Ligny with the same fury. The issue i the enemy had above 130,900. In a short time the now passed by our armies.
seemed to depend on the arrival of the Eitglieb 1 battle became general along the whole line; it seems ! At three o'clock Napoleon dispatched from the .
troops, or on that of the fourth corps of the Prussian that Napoleon had the design to throw the left field of battle a courier to Pails, with the news 'het
army : in fart, the arrival of this last division would wing upon the centre, and thus to effect the separa. '
victory was no longer doubtful ; • few hours of.
have afforded the Field-Marshal the means of making , pion of the English army from the Prussian, which ! ter he had no longer any left wing. We have not
immediately, with the right 'sing, an attack, from' he believed to he retreating upon Maestrecbt. For yet any exact account of the enemy's loot ;it is
which great success might be expected ; but nmsaar-1 this purpose he had placed the greatest part of his , enough to know that two-thirds of the w hole army
rived that the English division destined to support us i reserve in the centre against his right wing, and upon are killed, wounded, or made prisoners ; among the
.. is violently attacked by a corps of the French !this point he attacked with fury. The English army latter are Generals Duhesme and Compres. lip to
'army, and that it was with great difficoity it had I fought with a valour which it is impossible to sur- ' this time about 300 cannon and above 300 caissons
maintained itself in its position at Quatre Bras. The I pass. 'The repeated charges of the old guard were are in otsr hands.
' fourth corps of the army did not appear. So that we I baffled by the intrepidity of the Scotch regiments, i Few victories have been'
were forced to' maintain alone the contest with an !and at every charge the French cavalry was over- certainly no eurnale that
enemy greatly superior in numbers. I thrown by the English cavalry. But the superiority , losing a battle, engaged ii
The evening was already much advanced, and the' in numbers of the enemy was too great; Napoleon gloriously maintained it.
combat about Lim continued with the same fury ! continually brought forward considerable masses, capable of so much firm
and the same equality of success; we invoked, but and with whatever firmness the English troops main- middle of the position occi
in vain, the arrival of those succours which were so ! tabled themselves in their position, it was not possi- and exactly upon the heigl
necessary, the danger became every hour more and ' bit but that such heroic exertions must have a limit. Alliance. The march of
more urgent, all the divisions were engaged, or had It was ham/last four o'clock—The excessive dn.. was directed towards nil
, already been so, and there was not any corps at calties of the passage by the defile of St. Lambert from every side. It was
1 hand able to support them. Suddenly a division of had considerably retarded the march of the Prussian during the battle—it was
the enemy's infantry, which by favour of the night columns, so that nearly two brigades of the 4th ders, that lie fla"tered him,
had made a circuit round the village, without being corps had arrived at the covered position which was tory, and it was there thl
observed, it the same time that some regiments of assigned them. The decisive moment was come, There too it was that
Cuirassiers had forced the passage on the other side, there was not a moment to be lost. The Generals Marshal Blucher and LoL
took in the rear the main body of our army, which did nut suffer it to escape. They resolved iaimedi- darii, and mutualiy saluted
was posted behind the houses. This • surprise, on , stet), to begin the attack with the troops which they 111 commemoration (Of the
the part of the employ, was decisive, especially at bad at hand. Gen. Bulow therefore, with two bri- lists between the Ends))
the moment when our cavalry, also posted on a gades and a corps of cavalry advanced rapidly along the union of the two art
height behind the village, was repulsed by the ene- the rear of the enemy's right wing. The enemy did confidence, the Field-Mai
my's cavalry in repeated attacks. t not lose his presence of mind, he instantly turned the should bear the name m
Oar infantry pasted behind' figny, though forced I his reserve against us, and a murderous conflict be- By the order of
to retreat, did net suffer itself to be discouraged, , gars on that side. The combat remained long uncer- l
either by being surprised by the enemy in the dark. taro, while the battle with the English' army still
ness, a circumstance which exaggerates in the mind continued with the same violence : towards six P.M. In the conrse of the last
of man the dangers to which he finds himself es- . we received the news that Gen. Thielmann, with the have been pardoned on boa!
posed, or by the idea of seeing itself surrounded '3d corps, was attacked near Wavre by a very con- receiving conditional porde,
on all sides. Formed in masses, it coolly repulsed I siderable corps, and that they were already disputing tences have expired in the .
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all the attacks of the cavalry, end retreated in good • the possession of the town. The Field-Marshal, The Committee for promoting
order upon the heights, whence it oontiaued its• re: however, did not suffer himself to be disturbed by Poor of Ireland prologs, to
trograde movement upon, Tilly. In consequence of this news ; it was on the spot (where he was, and no lin, sod to educate a moldier
the sudden irruption of theenemy's cavaltpseend where else, that the affair was to be decided. A con- masters ; the incidental .
•of our masons, in alit precipitate rarest, bad liks continually supported with the same obstinacy, ' del''y by volautary contribution.

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nine bivouacs. fn some village. theY attlhoiptett to
mainvltirTherMartverrilot rii-www4hertiwee-tos
beAtipg of oar drums, or the soondief.dihel.trompet,
they either ited.or threw them.e1...114a.-1,6?-11V.P.
where they were cut. doitli ciTinisite.—ri.O.o;e47-11t
'was m whirls smaally. e Ito! swi t ;
for the thole march was but kcootinued cbar.e,
either in the corn-fields or i he

'o.thirds of the vi hole army .
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made prisoner! ; among the
sme and Compass. Up to
on and above 300 caissons
n so complete, and there is
.t an army two days after ,
in such an action,. acid so t
Honour be to the troops
nness and valour ! —ln the t
!upiedby the French army,
tht is a farm called La Stile
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f all the Pruitsion columns
as, farm, which Wa4 visible
s there that Napoleon was
there that he Kane his or.
nself with the hopes of tie. ..
hat his ruin was decided.—. -.
by a happy chance Field.
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ed each other as victors.
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