Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 edition. Excerpt: ... which passed the bridge near Znaym, at eleven o'clock in the night; and took its position on the exterior right wing on-the Taja before Znayrn. The detachment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wilgenheim, was cut off by the enemy, and could not reach Znaym. It was considered as lost, but at the end of five days. it again arrived without any loss at the army. The well-executed operations and clever conduct of iis commander, and of the Lieutenant-cornel Prombazzy in the Tear cf the enemy, occasioned it to take 78 prisoners, and though surrounded on all sides, happily to escape from. the pursuit of the enemy. The second corps had joined early on the tenth, with the torps of Rosenberg near Malberg, and arrived at the heights bn this side of the Taja, when the grenadiers near Tumlitz, and Oblas were engaged with the eneim in the valley of the Taga, who had advanced from Naschetitz. . Prince Hohenzollern ordered his first line to form towards the Taja, kept the second line in reserve behind the eminences, drove the enemy back on the right shore, occupied the village of Naschetitz with one battalion, and thus covered the train of artillery and the corps which filed along the road. At midnight the Prince received orders from the Archduke Charles to leave the right shore, and take his position in several lines behind the cavalry of reserve, on the . left wing of the army. The head-quarters of the Archduke were from the tenth to the eleventh in Znaym, and this Generalissimo found it necessary, even at the obvious risk of being out-flanked on his left wing in an unfavourable situation, to hazard a battle on the following day, as the stoppage of the artillery train, the pontoons, and almost all the carriages, in the defiles 1 of Frainersdorf, Budwits, ..
