The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-06-10
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Russian reinforcements.
| Trafalgar balanced Austerlitz; but
the conqueror still went on. striking
down enemy after enemy. Austria
and Russia now silencsd, Prussia
broke into flame. In 1906, war was
declared, and one hundred and fifty
thousand Prussians took the field.
The people were eager for war, apd
full of ardor; but their general, the
Dnke of Brunswick. was old and OBJ
| stinaIe. The French, as usual. were
| the first to commence operations.
Napoleon began in Franconia by a
series of partial actions, intending to
separate the Prussians from their sup
plies, and force them to a general and
final battle. The Germans struggling
from Weimar to Mulhausen, had left
a space of ninety miles betwee their
extreme flanks. The French advanc-
ed in three divisions upon Hof, Saal
burg, and Coburg, Napoleon's oblect
being to cross the Saale, and cut off
the Duke of Brunswick from bis dis
tant supplies at Naumburg. Prince
Louis, who was guarding the Saale,
by his rashness IN advancing on Ian
nes, left the Saale open to the French.
In this engagement the prince was
killed. Napoleon instantly advanced
on Naumberg, and engaged Devoust
and his division of thirty six thousand
men. The two armies met in a thick
mist in the village of Hasen- Hansen.
The Prussian cavalry threw them
selves on the French squares, but
were repeatedly repulsed. After three
hours of desperate and incessant char
ges, the duke himself was wounded in
the face by grapeshot. The King
of Prussia, receiving intelligence that
his right wing was being beaten to
pieces at Jena, by Napoleon himself,
ordered general charge to be made
along the whole line This also fail
ed. The French bayonets pierced
the Prussian centre and wings; re-
treat became universal, and the king
himself fled across the fields, escort
ed by handful of cavalry.
In the mean time Jena had been
fought. The Prussians commenced
by attacking Angereau, who held d
village and forest on the right wing.
Lannes coming to his support with
Soult, at length drove back the Prus-
SLAMS, whose discipline kept them in
huge masses, that advanced and re-
tired like machinery.
The next day Mollendorf surren
dered at Erfurt. Soon after General
KaIkreuh's division was routed in at
tempting to cross the Harz Noun
tains. Prince Eugene of Wurtem-
| burg's sixteen thousand men was also
overthrown by Belnadotte at Halle.
Prince Hohenlohe, retreating from
Magdeburg with fifty thousand men,
passed the Elbe into Lower -Saxony
and driven to hay by Soult and Ber-
nadotte, threw himself into Lubbock.
| In desperate battle in the streets OF
that town he lost four thousand men,
| but fought his way out to Schwerta,
where he had to surrender. City af
ter city then threw open it's gates to
the French. Spandau. Stettin, Gus
trim, Hrmeln Magdeburg made no re
sistance. Eleven days after the battle
of Jena Napoleon entered Berlin. He
proved himself a harsh and tyraEnical
conqueror. and loaded the nobility
with insults. He refused the King OF
Prussia even a temporary armistice
unless he at once surrendered the
fortress of Grandenz, Dantzig. and
Colberg, which still remained in the
hands of Prussia.
But in 1913, after the retreat from
| Moscow, Prussia seized the opportu-
nifty, and took her revenge. The
Russians and Swedes joined her, and
Blucher was appointed geneTalissimc
of the Prussian army Prince Eugene
instantly evacuated Berlin, and was
blockaded in Magdeburg. Hamburg
and Lubbock declared for allies. Thorn
and Sandau quickly surrendered. Al
Lutzen Napoleon met his his new
enemies, and slew twenty thousand Of
them. The French loss Was great
but they kept the field, while the al
lies retreated to Bautzen. There
again, the French victory was dearly
earned. The allies lost ten thousand
men, the French considerably more
At the second battle the allies lef
scarcely single gun or prisoner, ant
retreated as if on parade. This wa.
terminated in the great tragedy o.
Leipsic. Driven back into the towI
by superior force of the allies, aftel
the opportune arrival of Blucher, tn,
French had to retreat through tn,
narrow streets and over two small
bridges, with much marshy grount
between them. OF the French TWEEN
ty five thousand men were made pri
soners, and Poniatowski was drowned
in covering the retreat Napoleon
} himself narrowly escaped A small
victory at Hanau enabled him to re-
|. treat Dresden, Stettin and Dantzis
soon after surrendered to the allies
, 1t was not long before France wa
, invaded Blucher and the army o
Silesia blockaded at once the -frontie
: fortress of Metz, Thionville and Lux
, embourg, and passing the defiles O
the Vosges, pushed forward to Join
/ vile, Vitro and Saint Dizier. Napo
leon, flying at Blurher, first attacke,
| him at Brienne. Blucher was sur
: prised at the chateau, and with diff
Guilty escaped
J The part which the Prussians too