Complex sentence: Napoleon Bonaparte had moved against a strung-out Prussian army in the hope of whittling it down by a series of battles and on 10 February he caught General Olussiev's 5000 Russians just south of Champaubert.
Split into simpler sentences: Napoleon Bonaparte had moved against a strung-out Prussian army in the hope of whittling it down by a series of battles. On 10 February he caught General Olussiev's 5000 Russians just south of Champaubert.