Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-08-01
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FRENCH GRAND ARMY.
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Rfnckenstein, May is, 1907

| tHthcUotcn, may 10, IoUl.
! Prince Jerome, conceiving that the three
advanced works from Neiss, along the Pr
lau, were an obstruction 70 the operations
ofthe siege, ordered gen. Vandamme to des-
troy them. This general at the head Of
the Wurtemburgh troops, carried off those
works in the night of the 3Oth April and
LIST of May put to the sword the enemy's
troops that defended them, made 100 pri-
soners, ard took Q pieces of cannon, The
captains du Genie, Deponthon and FROST,
marched at the head of the columns and
gave proofs of great bravery. Licu,enant's
Hohendorh, Cawer and Mules, have par
ticulsrly distinguished themgclves. On the
second May, lieut.. general Camarer took
the command of the Wurtemburgh Divisi-
on.
1t appears that since the arrival of the
Emperor Alexander at the army, a grand
council of war has been held at Barten-
stein, at which the king of Prussia and the
Grand Duke Constantine have assisted :;
that the dangers to which Dantzic was ex-
posed have been the object of the delibera-
tons OF the council that it has been ac-
knowiedged that two ways only remained
! by which Dantzic might be saved. The
first in attacking the French army, by eros
! Sing the Passarge, and running the chance
lof general battle the Issue of which,
! should it prove successful, would be 70 o.
tbligo the French army TO uncover Dantzic
The other by relieving lie place by sea.
The first operation appears to have been
deemed impraCticable, without exposing
themselves to ruin and total defeat; and
the plan for succouring Dantzic by sea was
adopted.
Accordingly, lieut.. general Kaminski,
son of the field marshal, with two Russian
divisions, forming eleven regiments, and
several prussian regiments, were embar-
ked at Pillau. On the 18th, 68 transports,
escorted by three frigates, landed The troops
at the mouth of the Vistula, at the port of
| Dantzic, ander the protection OF fort Weis-
chelmunde.
| The emperor Immediately gave orders
to the marshal commanding the corps of
reserve of the grand army to march from
Marienburgh, where his head quarters
were, with the division of general Oudinot,
in order to reinforce the army Of Marshal
Lefebre. He arrived by a single march
ut the same moment that the encmy's ar
NY was DISSEMINATING. The 18th and 18th,
tine enemy made preparations for an attack.
He was separated from the city by space
short Of league, but occupied by the
French troops.
On the 5th, lie dehled from the Fort in
three columns. His project was to pene-
Itrate by the right of the Vistuia. General
Iof Brigade, Schirum, who was at the adj
lvanced posts with the Cd regiment of light
Infantry, and battalion Of Saxons and
Poles, received the first FIRE of the enemy,
and kept them at cannon shot from Weis-
ChelmnHde.
Marshal LeFebre had directed his march
to the bridge situated below the Nistula,
n, oil .E
fantry and some SaXons to cross over 10 the
assistance Of gen. Schramm. Gen Gar
dame, charged with the defence Of the
right Of the Vistula, had likewise suppor-
ted it with the remainder of his corps.
The enemy was superior, and the engage
ment was maintained OF both sides with C.
Iqual obstinacy.
Marshal Lanncs, with Oudinot'srescTve,
was placed on the left OF the Vistula, by
which il was expected the enemy would de-
file, as appeared by their dispositions the
,preceding evening A.: but observing the
movements Of the chcmy unmasked, mar.
shall bannes passed the Vistula, with four
battalions of Oudinot's reserve. The whole
line, and the reserve Of the enemy, were
; routed, and pursued as far as the Palissa.
does and at in the morning the enemy
was blocEadcd in the fort of Weischcl.
ihUEUC. ne UCiO OF DalJie was covered
with dead bodies. Our loss amounts C
% men killed and 200 wounded that o.
the eneEy is $50 killed, 1900 wounded, ant
90 prisoners. In the evening great mum
! Der Of wounded were perceived, being put
, on board the shipping which sufficiently
tsheered of oreturn to Koningsburgh. Du
: ring that action the place made no sally
and ,contented itself with supporting tn,
Russians by brisk cannonade.
The enemy has Witnessed this affair from
the top of its tattered and half demolished
, ranparts. lie has been dismayed at sec
ing the hope Of relief vanish away. Cen
lOudinOt has Killed three Russians with lii.
{ own hand. Several ofhis taifofiiccrs hav,
been wounded, The 10Th and the ID re
giments of infantry have distinguished
themselves
The particulars ofthis engagement have
mot yet been received at head quarters.
The Journal Of the siege Of Dautzic wil
show that the works are going on with e
Iqual activity; that the covered way /
completed, and that they are busy in ma
King preparations for the passage Of tn
ditch.
As soon as the enemy heard that his ma
ritime expedition had arrived before Daut
lzic, mis- light troops begun to harrass th
Whose line from the position occupied b.
marshal Soult, along the Pas5zrge, 20 III
d division Of gen. Mnraud outhc Ale. TIC
were received within musket shot by th
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