The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-15
RATTLE CT WACRAM.

Greatly disnaS edTov the progress of the
French army, and is great results occasion
ed almost without AN effort, the enerny or
dered all his troops to- march, and in the e.
venng took the following position: His right
wing extended from Stadlau To- Gernsdorff,
his center from Gernsiorff to Wagram, and
his left wing from Wagram to Neustedel-
The lett wing OF the French army was at
Great Aspern, its center at Raschedorff,
and lis right at GinZendorf. In this order
night came on, and we prepared for a great
ba, tie the mex, morning. The position of the
enemy was recommended throughout, in order
TO hinder him TO adopt any system, after we
should take possession of the village of Wa
gram in the night In that case his line al
ready extended, precarious and surprised
by change of camp, must have suffered the
different corps to be mixed without order or
object, and the aff;ir would soon be ferm
mated without any serions conflict. Wagram
was attacked, our troops took the village ;
but Saxon column and a French column in
the dark took each other for enemies, and
the operation miscarried.
Already we were preparing for the bat
tie OF Wagram. L. appears taat the u,sposi-
tons OF the FIR, nch and Austrian generals
were opposed to each other.
The emperor employed the whole night
TO draw together his rce in the center,
where he wa> personally within cannon shot
of Wagram. For this purpose the duke If
Rivoli marched to the left OF Aderkau and
left single division at Aspern, which had
orders in case of peCessity to retreat to the
island of Lobau: The duke of Auerstadt had
orders to advance beyond the village OF G. ross
hot in order to approach the center. The
Austrian general in the mean time weaken
ed his cenger, in order TO occupy and strength
OF hia uif t,,x uh,ci, he, &c, Il
al eXtent.y
On the 9th at day break the Duke ofPonte
Corvo occupied the left wing. In his second
line was the Duke of Rivoli. The Vice kjrg
closed in the center, where the corps OF count
Oudinot, that of the Duke of Ragusa, the
corps Of the Imperial guard, and the divisi-
on of CuirasSers formed or lines. The
Duke of Aucrstadt marched from the RICH.
wing to reach the center. The enemy on
the other hand placed the corps of Belle
garde ut Radlau in Marsh the corps Col
lowrath, Lichtenstein and Muller united
with the right wing in position of Wagram
where the Prince Oh HolIenzollern was, and
at the end Of the left wing at Neustedel,
where the corps Of Rosenberg and Auerberg
debouclyed. and by a curved movement at the
early dawn fell upon each other and gave the
signal for battle.
The Emperor equally commenced at this
period, ordered the Duke of Auerstadt to be
reinforced by the division of { arassiers of
The duke Of Padua. and the corps of Rosen d.
berg to be taken in flank by battery of II
pieces of the division Of Gen. count Manson
~, In less than three quarters of an hour
the fine corps of Auerstadt had defeated the
corps of Rosenberg and pursued it beyond
Neustedei, aud did it great injury.
Meanwhile the cannonade became general
through the whole line, and the disposition
of the enemy disclosed itself every moment.
His whole left wing was lined with artillery.
it might be said, that che Austrian General
prepared not to obtain victory, but that he
had in view only the means Of taking advan
tage of 1t. This disposition seemed SO un-
Skllful, that a defeat was anticipated, and
the emperor waited some time before he or
dered the small disposition which was ne
ceSsary, to Illustrate that Of the enemy apy
20 renderit a misfortune to him.