The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-01-11

lalre. IN ABOUT twenty Hlluults tHN
exact time in which he had declared
he could do so-he had made good his
position, and was fiercely engaged with
the column OF Kollowrath. which
formed the enemy's center. and with
which Kutusoff was present in person.
The latter, realizing for the first time
what the loss of Pratzen would mean.
endeavored to concentrate toward the
right but his efforts were unavailing;
he could only stand and fight. writes
Prof. Sloane in his life of Napoleon
now running in the Century. The two
Austro- Russian columns on his left
swooped down TO the Goldbach, and
seized both Teinitz and Sokolnitz.
simultaneously with Soult's advance
Bernadotte and Murat moved forward,
encountering between Girzikowitz and
Blasowitz the enemy's cavalry under
Prince Lichtenstcin, and the Russian
imperial guard under the Grand Duke
Constantine. Napoleon advanced to OBJ
serve this conflict, and a little before
eleven, at the critical moment, when
the regiment of his brother Joseph was
on the verge of being engufed and lost,
he threw in the cavalry of his own
guard under Bessieres and Rapp. upon
the Russian guard, turned the scale
against them. and with his own eyes
saw Constantine withdraw. The Rus
sian vanguard under Bagration had
meantime come in from BosenitZ, and
was holly engaged with portion of the
French left. The entire cavalry mass
of Lichtenstein and Murat was COM
mingled in bitter conflict. With the re-
! treat of Constantine began the rout of
the entire Austro- Russian right wing.
Lannes, supported by the Santon re-
doubt, had stood like rock until then
at once he precipitated himself. with
the divisions of Suchet and Caffarelli,
upon Bagration. and drove him back.
Li"htenstein, who, up 20 that moment,
mad at least held his own-if, indeed.
he had not shown himself the stronger
could no longer stand, and late in the
afternoon he too began to yield. Be-
tween eleven and twelve Soult had
! cleared the Pratzen heights, and push
ing over toward the right. had finally,
just as the sun burst in splendor
through the clouds, separated the
enemy's left wing from its center. The
latter had been sadly weakened both
: brsTetaehments to strengthen the left
-l'IrnJnaro ts s9S,in G.G2lest .ttslpasaaHl ~ it
"a. 20 i etreat, and Napoleon, having
satisfied himself that all was well on
his left to the north, rode south to join
Soult. and in passing despatched
Drouot's division against the fugitive
Kutusoff, whose column was thus over
powered and thrown into utter con-
fusion. Since nine in the morning
Davout had stood on the west shore of
the Goldbach, flinging back the
successive charges OF the enc
my's overgrown left. The con-
tinuous struggle had been terrific: the
stream literally flowed blood as the SOL
diers of both sides crashed through the
| ice, and, unable to disengage them
selves from the muddy bottom stood
fighting until they died. BY two o'clock
| his labors were over; the great move or
the day, Soult's echelon march, right
shoulder forward, was complete; Saint
Hilaire and Vandamme had recaptured
the villages of Sokolnitz and Aujezd;
the three southernmost Austro- Russian
columns were entirely surrounded and
only a few from each escaped to join
the remnants of their right center. and
reserve, running for life across frozen
ponds and bitches, by bikes. and over
rough-plowed fields towards Austerlitz.
About 5000 of the fugitives, mostly
Russians under Doctoroff and Ian
geron, had risked themselves on the
ice of the Satschan lake and were
hurrying across when Napoleon ar
rived. He ordered the field-pieces TO
be turned on the ice so that the balls
weakened and cracked 1t. In a few
minutes it gave way: with shrieks and
groans the multitude sank into the
slowly rising waters and disappeared
under the tossing ice-1oes. Nearly
1000 OF them were drowned The fight
ing strength OF the coalition was de-
5troyed; so likewise was their moral
courage. Shortly after Kutusoff's re-
treat General Toll found Alexander
seated weeping by the wayside and &C.
companicd by only a single adjutar: