The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-27
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Her majesty, the empress queen and Re
gent, has received the following intelligence
OF the situation of the armies on the 18th DC
tober:
On the 9Th the Emperor left Dresden: ON
the 9Th he slept at Wurtzen; the 9th at Eu.
tehbourg, and on the 10th at DubeD.
The enemy's army of Silesia, which had
marched upon Wurtzen Immediately re-
treated, and re.passed to the left bank of
tue Mulda; 1t had some engagements, in
which we made some prisoners, and took
several hundreds of baggage Wagons
j.. Gen. Regnier marched upon Wittenberp.
passed the Elbe, marched upon Roslau, turn
ed the bridge of Dessau, seized upon il, af-
forwards marched upon AIKEN, and took DOS.
session Of the bridge. Gen. Bertrand march.
ed upon the bridges of Wartenboure. and
seized upon them. The prince of Mosk
wa marched upon the town of Dessau he
met a PrusSian division, Gen. Demale. over
threw it, and took 5000 men and six pieces
OF cannon. Several cabinet couriers, among
others Sieur Kraft, with dispatches of inn
portance, were taken.
Alter having thus taken possession of all
the enemy's bridges, the empeior's inten-
ticn was to pass the e be. to manpuyre up
on the right bank from Hamburg to Ores
den, to threaten Potsdam and Berlin, and
to take for the centre of operations Magde-
burg, wsich, for this purpose, had been sup
piled with WarlIke stores and provisions
but on the 18Th, the emperor learned at
Deuben, that the Bavarian army had Joined
the Austrian army, and threatened the Low
er Rhine.
This inconceivabIe detection made the
detection OF other Princes be foreseen, and
he a.
on of returning towards the Rhine. Unfor.
tunate change! as every thing had been
prepared to operate upon Magdeburg but
1t would have been requisite to have remain
ed separate and without communication with
France for month this was convenient at
the moment when the emperor fixed his
lans; it was no longer the same, VIII n
Austria was about to have two new dispos
able mics, the BHyarian army, and the ar
my opp sed to Bavaria. The emperor
therefore changed with these unforeseen
circumstances, and re owed his head-quar.
ters TO l. ipsic. Meanwhile the king of Ma
plies, who remained in observation at Frey.
bourg, received orders on the IA 20 make a
charge in front, and march upon Geurg and
Freybourg, operating upon Wurtzen and
Wrenburg. An Auatrian division which
occupied AuguStesbourg, rendering this
movement difficult, the king received orders
to attack il; he defeated it. and afterwards
effected his movement TO the light. Never
theless, the right of the enemy's army of
Bohemia, composed of Wittgenstein's Rus
sian corps, had marched upon Albourg, up.
on Intelligence of the king of Naples change
in front. il marched upon Freybourg, and
afterwards by the left on Borna, placing it.
self between the King OF Naples and Leip-
sc The king did not hesitate respecting
the manguvre he ought 70 make; he faced
about and marched upon the enemy, over
threw him, took nine pieces Of cannon, one
prisoners, and drove him beyond |
the Elster, after having made him expert |
ence a loss Of from to 5000 men.
On the 18Th the position of the army was
rs follows: Ihe emperof's head quarters /
we're at Reidnits, half league from Leip |
SIC; the 9Th corps, commanded by gen. |
bertrand, was at the village of Landenau /: |
be 9th corps WIS at Liten hGl.
The king of Naples, with the Cd, 9Th and
5th corps. had his ght at D<z, and his /
CIT al Liberwo kowitz The 81 & 7th wee I
u march from Euleubours, to flank the 9th
.orps.
The grand array Of Bohemia had general !