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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as completed by the rapid advance ofthe light cavalry brigades of Treilhard andMilhaud on the left, and of Kellermann on theright, which swept away all that encounteredthem, and drove the shattered allied troopstowards the village of Austerlitz. The Russo-Austrian losses on this part of the field of battleamounted to 1,200 or 1,500 killed, 7,000 or 8,000prisoners, two standards, and twenty-seven piecesof artiller5^ While Napoleon had thus struck a heavjblow at the allied centre and had been com-pletely victorious on his left, his right, underDavoust, was with difficulty holding its ownagainst Buxhowden (who had assumed the com-mand of the columns of Doctorof and Kienmaj-er),and but that the masses brought against it wereunable to deploy their strength it must inevit-ably have been crushed. Thirty thousandfoemen of all arms were pressing in assault upon10,000 French, already wearied by a long andrapid march to their position at Ravgern. ButDavoust was able to concentr.ite what power he
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Simultaneously followed the levelled bayonets ofSuchets Division (/. 190). AUSTERLITZ. 191 had, and to meet at advantage the heads only ofthe cokimns which were winding their wayalong the narrow passes that opened betweenthe lakes and through the marshy ground in hi*:front. Even so the strain was terrible, andVvould have been more than less hard) troopsunder a less able and determined leader couldhave stood. But Napoleon was quite alive tothe necessities of the gallant soldiers who werestanding their ground so staunchly. He orderednis reserve of Grenadiers and the Imperial Guardto move up to the support of his right centreand to threaten the flank of the columns thatwere attacking Davoust, while he also directedthe two divisions of Soults corps, which hadmade the attack on the Pratzen plateau againstBuxhowdens rear. It was one oclock, and at this moment, whilethe orders just given were being e.xecuted, theRussian infantry, supported by the RussianImperial Guard, made a desperate eflFo

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