Memoirs And Campaigns of Charles John Prince Royal of Sweden

ay morning, and transferred his head-quarters to this place. " Repeated advices have been received the enemy's troops were assembling in forc a Bareuth, and in the direction of Trebbin to make a push on Berlin. His Royal Highess concentrated the combined army between the - capital and Spandau. Nearly 90,OOO combatsnts have arrived in that position since y evening. Some corps have marched ten man miles in 36 hours. Lieutenant Baron de Winzingerode has a reconnoisance on the right with 8 or 900O ca- va ry- He pushed forward as far as Wittenberg and JuterlKick, on the left flank of the enemy, and made some prisoners, two of whom are captains. The Bavarian Colonel, Count de Sessel, has been taken with some cavalry. Lieutenant de Vins, of the regiment of hussars of Pome- rania, attacked the enemy at Zesch, and took 52 men and 21 remount horses belonging to a regiment of Hesse Darmstadt cavalry. " The enemy, as far as it is yet known, has not passed the frontier, except with reconnoitring parties. " The French General of Division De Jomini, chief of the staff' of the army commanded by the Prince of Mosktva, came over on the 5th to the Allies, and, passing through the army of General Blucher, proceeded to the Russian head-quarters. He has confirmed the intelligence of the Emperor Napoleon's project to attack the army covering Berlin. " General Blucher occupied Breslau on the 14th." The defection of General De Jomini, although by birth a Sw... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.