The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-01
Chapter 2--NAP0LE0N--Pa 2


During this campaign the French had
The angry Prusslan King sent an am
hassador 10 protest Napoleon gave no
answer until he had won NJ Auster!ltz
After that the Prussian monarch was
glad 10 lot tho matter drop Austen
Iitz having been settled. Napoleon de-
cidcd 10 Invade Prussia 10 punish tho
King for his presumption in objociing
10 the violation OF Anspach.
Tn" Pruss!an force lag from Mayencc
- Dresden, with force At Wciinar
which II was intended 10 move into
Franconia. ON october 8. tile French
swep; out Of the mountains and forests
the cavalry hidden behind the infantry
We're overwhelmed and driven on to
the plain. The main force of Prusstans
however. was not located until October
-, and the battle at Jena did not begin
unt!l two days later,
First the French. under Soult and
.Nugcrau, although badly placed. sue
cecded in routing the Prussians on the
Landgrafcnbcrg. and before noon the
latter were in hopeless confusion. and
by nidafternoon Napoleon threw his
cavalry upon them and the victory
Mas complete.
Al the same time the French. under
bavoust. also defeated with great loss
a Prnssian army AT koscu. The tactics
Of the French were much superior
but there was a moment when their
defeat seemed certain had not the Duke
~ brunswick been slain and the news
81 prussian defeat n Jena came in
time TO dcmoral!ze the enemy and put
them To Hight. THIS ~ called the bat
tic of Aucrs'ad,.
Tho defeated force spent the nigh; In
retreat towards Lubeck. The pursuing
French were welcomed by :ho .nhaDi-
ian,s OF the country through "h.ch
they passed. so greatly was the Prus-
sian army hated by the people. This
was even true Of Berlin when the
conluerors reached that place. on DC
;ober &c Meanwhile Iiohcnlohcs
army had capitu!atcd 10 the French
under Murat II rren%!au. leaving
Bluchcr. the only other lrussian com
mamdcr, in the field.
Prussia was made To demohii!ze her
army. TO occupy Hanover. and keep
English vessels out Of Hanovcrian
ports. Auspach and Baireu;h were
given 10 Bavaria. Napoleon now
launched out as Hymcn. lie had Eu-
gene Beauharnais married 10 the
4avarian princess, and insisted that hia
brother, Jerome, whom he had set up
as King Of Wesiphalia. take for his
wife the daughter Of the e!ector or
Wnrtemberg, Stephanie l.eauharnais,
wifc's niece, was promised 10 the son
If the Duke OF Baden.
Then ne intcrfercd In Naples, where
the KnG had, he said. broken his
treaty. The King fed 10 Sicily at tho
approach Of a French army. and Joscpii
As-fo IN
1906. Eugene Bcauharnais ruled a;
Milan. Louis Bonaparte was installed
rs King of Holland, the republic nav
ing been dissolved. Murat. Napolcon's
brother-in-law. was established ia tho
iuchy Of Berg, to which mad been an
ncXea n part of Cleves.
with other petty German mic states he
played chess, moving the mannikin
rulers about IS suited his purpose.
which was always to strengthen his
POWER by geographical shutting. mar
rages. or the appointment Of rulers.
He now had AUSTRIA 50 weakened and
states OF his making that al last he
announced the Holy Roman empire was
al an end. and it was.
While Napoleon was In Berlin and
mis- troops were ovcrrunninE Prussia
he learned that n Russian army was
gathering on the eastern frontier TO
aid the Prussians. Napoleon advanced
into Poland 10 meet II. cncountering
conditions different from those he had
heretofore met There were no Polish
reads and the country was poor.
But by November . Davoust hao
pushed on TO Warsaw, with the re-
mainder Of the army following closely
behind. Warsaw was reached on No
vennber 30 Napoleon pushed forward
troops as fast as they could be organ