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am directed to protect his right flank !;
and in order that there may be no oh.
staclc in the passage Of the. Berezyna,
aud to get the start Of the enemy on the
road to Wiieyka, I wheeled my corp. to
the right towards Rerezyna from whence
am in hopes to be the better enabled
to cut him of. Arrived at Eepsf, ! was
there informed by the inhabitants that
considerable corps of the enemy, under
General Wrede, was at Dokstchizar. l
Immediately ordered there strong ad.
vanced guard under the command of
lieutenant.colonel Tensenborn, who has
reported to me, that no sooner had he
been perceived by the enemy, than they
retreated bv the Wileyka road, probably
10 the intention Of uniting with their
main body. I am now going in pursuit
of the enemy, and shall continue TO re-.
main under the command ot CountWNt-
penstein, conformably to the orders re-
ceiyed toihat effect from the command
er in chief Of the armies.
Rehort from the General Of Cavai'y,
,Couht Wntgersfeir, to his Imferial
Majesty, dated En- Bivouac, near Ka-
| men, 4th December. ~ ~
Immediately after Napoleon had ef-
fected his passage over the Berezyna,
near Stoudenzie, I sent off the abide
| camp, general Kutusoff, who had just
arrived, with the whole of bis corps Of
| light cavalry to Lepel, in order that, az
ter having crossed the river, he might
be enabled to act on the enemy's flank,
and at the same time keep observing the
remains of the Bavarians, under Gen.
| NVrede, who were at Doktschitze. Ar.
rived at Lepel he learned that these Ba.
varians had already Quilted the place, &
were marching BY DoIginoff and Wiley.
| ka, and endeavoring to unite themselves
with the main body OF the army atSmor.
| gonia. In consequence OF this informa-
| ton, he sent after them detachment un-
| der lieutenant-colonel Testenborn. The
latter reports to me on the I'd inst. that
having overtaken their rear guard at
| Dolginoff, it had been beaten, and rs
officer. and 1000 privates had been taken
| prisoners: and that in consequence OF the
occupation of Golginoff by our troops,
the intended junction of this corps had
been entirely prevented.
Admiral Tchitchagoff being in pur.
suit of the eneny by the road to Molo.
aetchno, and in order that our troops
should not press one another on the same
road, and by that means retard our move.
ments, am taking the direction of Kos
tenewitsch, Narotsch and Nestawischky
thus acting on the flank of the enemy, &
endeavoring, particularly with my Cos
sacks, even to cut him off entirely.
At Nomentschin l shall be enabled
to act in concert with Admiral Tchits.
chagoff, and at the same time to keep
in check Macdonald's army.
The enem,'s loss, during the three
days have pursued him, and from the
difficulties opposed to him in crossing
the Berezyna, must be above twenty
! thousand men as have already sent of
as prisoners thirteen thousand, and his
loss in killed. wounded and drowned,
must amount to more than seven thou
sand. independently of the II pieces Of
cannon taken from the enemy, and Of
which I have already most humbly made
my report, he has lost three others be-
sides one eagle, which have hereby the
honor to lay at the feet ofyour Imperial
Majesty.
ST. PETERsBURGH, Dec. 1882.
My Lord,
In my dispatch of the 9Th instant your
lordship would find bulletins. containing
reports of Major General KutusoE Of
the I'd December, and of count Witt
genstein of the 4th December. These
reports describe Bonaparte with the re.
mains of his army, as marching from
Zembine upon wilma through Vileika {;
the Admiral and general countWittgen-
stein moving upon the same point Of
wilma, the former through Molodetchi-
no, the latter by Narotch and Nement-
china.
In this part ofthe pursuit the Russian
corps have stuck very close 10 the enc
my; but the light troops which got be.
fore him, were not of sufficient force to
stop him.
His coursewas altered in conse quence
of some of the flank attacks, and he ar
rived at Molode,chno instead of Velci-
ka; and having gained some time by
destroying the bridge, he continued his
march through Smorgona to wilma,
which place he appears to have reached
on the 10th December.
The advanced guards Of the several
Russian columns arrived in the immedi-
ate neighborhood Of wilma nearly at the
same time, and the retiring army was
comDslled m continue ite ro,ro,, f,o,o