The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-30 00:00:00

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JOURNAL OF MILITARY OPERATIONS PROM THE 7TII
TO THE 13TH NOVEMBER, 1812, DATED MEAD-

QUARTERS KOPYS.

Novvesett 7.—Major.General Borosdini having
driven the enemy from Laeda, pursued them with a
part of his detachment as far as Bolschoi Kolotof.
sky, and with lis Cossacks as far as Kosan, where
they were relieved. by those of the detachment com-
manded by the Aid-de-Camp General Count Oschar-
ofsky. The enemy lost in his flight seven pieces of
cannon, and a number of carriages.
The General of Cavalry, Count Platoff, reports,
under date of the iith instant, that having on the 3d
approached Smolensko, and having learnt from the
inhabitants, who were quitting it, that the enemy
occupied the Fauxbourg of Petersburgh, he gave im-
mediate ordert to his troops to attack under cover of
the tire of the artillery of the Don.
Colonel Kaysaroff. after having with his chasseurs
broken the barrier which the enemy had placed, vi-
gorously
pursued them into the Fauxbourg itself,
from whence they in alarm and disorder within ,
the walls of the fortress, where they were etpasod
to a fire of grape.shet from the neighbouring
heights. Whilst the Cossacks and the Mammas
were engaged iq the faut,bourg, the enemy ifs e
sortie in two columns, with eight pieces of ',Anon
and a mortar, resolutely determined to repossess
themselves of the Fauxbourg.' But Major. General
Kouteinckoff with his Cossacks, and Colonel Kay.
saroff with his chasseurs, fell upoq them, and hav-
ing repulsed the infantry, took their cannon, The
Fan ibourg was retaken, when night put an end to
the contest. On the 4th, the enemy established
themselves behind the palisadoes, keeping possession
of the left bank of the Dnieper, whilst his columns
quitted the town with precipitation,
• Count Platoff caused Tr Deum to be sung in pre-
sence of the troopsl accompabied by a discharge of
artillery and a hurrah of the soldiers.
The enemy on quitting the town, sprung the
mines which they had formed under several places
of the fortress, which set fire to the houses of the
fauliboprg of Petersburgh, which were situated op-
posits the fortress.
' The Aid-de.Camp, General Baron Polettertako4
inelsky reports, that the officer whom he bed de•
tached with three squadrons, had discovered an
enemy's column at three - -,rsts fro—

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•2‘..""`”' enemy's column at three worsts from Winnisa- from Schkloff towards ,
. j.sialtil sad haring 'snrroundeil them, he, sent, thp some of the inhabitants,
1 of Sato. Sittabs-Rowneider of the huslars of tite Akimeeldt that the enemy's troops
before it guards, 'with' a proposal to lay doyn their arms.— had threatened to set es
This cosisseission he executed with comp ISM success— in coniequence of this
the caliber of prisoners 'amounted to two thousand roffsky, without lois -9
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