The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-12-23

following difpoftion
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column of from S TO 10000 men each-be-
1ide being 10 difpofable as to form complete
wings in line of battle by fhort rapid move
ment forward on the centre; or to throw from
the rear, of either main body, auxiliary columns
to cover or iupport the fianks or the centre
thefe may be prefumcd to be executive of the
reierve, and by difpoGtion capable of covering
any open country, and Distributing the force in
fuch manner as to render fubiftence eafy for
all.
Bernadotte (prince of Ponte Corvol appears
TO have had the honor of commanding the ad-
vance or central columns /; Augcreau, the right;
and Murat (duke of Berry, the left; that is their
columns were the advance Of the feyeral main
bodies, centre and wings.
The Pruiiians having unfoldcd their de!ign
to turn the French right, aud cut off the COM
muncation with Cailel Of which the taking
quarters carly at Hoif, is confident part the
French appear to have determined to defeat
them by a counter itratagem /; and to turn the
Prufiian left which was completely effected,
and the French petition now formed right an
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the county of Schartzburg, their right advance
ed beyond Scbiaira, in the county of Reufs,
fpace of 10 miles, Gera the left of the French,
only 10 miles from Leipzig and $50 from Berlin,
SchlaitZ, within 90 miles of Leipzig and ly-
ing from the French ia direction nearly north,
with the current of the rivers, always favorable
to an invading enemy, at their command.
(fhere are two places named Gera. which mutt
not he cnnfnmded, &c which &c taac Elf Elf
ter river, and very near the theatre of action,
but thirty miles nearer to Leipzig.)
The nnarii.als Ney and Sonlt appear TO have
had command offeparatc columns, but from the
plaaic character of French tactics, and the ia.
cility with which columns change front or incoF-
porate with or feparate from others; it is very
difficult TO discriminate their ieparate routes.
The man9uvres and contre-manGuvres of the
armies occupied the 9th, 10th, 18th and 9th
of October actions appear to have taken place
between wings of the relative armies on the
10th and lIth-(correfpondiDg exactly with
the campaign of lso5)t the battle of StbiaHS
on the Sale river, appears 10 lave been desperate
tho not general battle but it proved fatal to
the Pruiiians.
miles ...7er down the river, and 70 much near
er to Berlin, another defperate action was
fought and the ifiue may be inferred from the
fact that battles were fought
On the 10Th at LobewitZ onthe Sala, 8 miles
N. w. of Naumburg, and IS miles from Leip-
zig, l25 from Berlin.
On the 18th, at NaumbGrg.
On the l4tb, at Jena, ten mile.
On the 18th, at Weimar.
On the leth, at kofen.
On the nth, with the Prufiian army of re-
fcrye, 81 900 cho(en troops, Saxons and PrEl-
fans, between LaRcbRadt and Halle. The lat
= H. ~ss Tnr ,fu iat,
duitry and opuieacc, il is the ancient capital of
the circle of Halle but the modern duchy of
Magdeburg, and about 20 miles from Leipzig,
on the river Sala Leipzig is on the river Piej5,
which fails into the Sala, five miles above Halle.
LanchRadt or Lauchfedt, is on the welt lide of
the Sala, about miles above Halle. y
The Prulians though dilconceited in the ORR
ginal deiign of turning the right flank OF the
French, were not tardy in new arrangements,
futed to the nature Of the circumstances and
OF the country; their plan aflumcd immedi-
ately double character defenfive and often
FIVE the heep hanks of The Sala, and the-ra-
pidity of its curreSt, were favorable to defen-
five operations this new plan of operations is
attributed to prince Hohenlohe, whole difaf-
ters and plumbers in the year !794, ought to
have prevented his again appearing in the field
rs commander. He propofed turning the
right flank of the French, while the centre army
lhould maintain the Sala and the frong pafes
between Speilberg aud Kofen, and the com
munications at the confluence Of the Unarut
with Sala below RoGQcb.
This theatre Of war was well calculated to
infpire the herolfm Of the contending armies.
On the 9Th of November 1857, one Of the mott
dreadful battles was fought aad the mott fignal
Victories gained in tie annals of that or any
preceding era, by the great Frederick of Prullia
with $4,000 men, over $4,000 Auaro-imperial-
lis and French under the prince of Soubife
tho allies were defeated with lofs Of ixty pieces
of cannon, and near 1000 killed and wounded
the PruIans who gained the battle as much by
hyperion Kill and d1cipline as courage and con-
6|sNee, LOFT not more than 500 men.
The PrufTians had every motive for exciting
their military fame at Rofbacb the French had
to retrieve under the 1eeV drHq12 the ingIorious
defeats which they fefered under the cld-but
the fortune Of battle was MOI conOaDt to the
arms of PrulIia--lhc great foul which ani1ated
had gone, or it had taken ito abode in th8body
Of the general who oppofed them.