GENERAL HISTORY. 



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pended, and the appeal was again 

 made to the sword, the public 

 Iiave not been informed ; but from 

 the tone ktiil taken by the French 

 ruler, and his weH-known charac- 

 ter, it may be presumed that his 

 mind was not yet humiliated to 

 acquiescence in those sacrifices of 

 past dominion which would be re- 

 quired of him. 



The army of the Crown Prince 

 having crossed the Elbe at difie- 

 rent places, made dispositions on 

 December 2nd, for attacking mar- 

 shal Davoust in his strong position 

 on the Stecknitz ; he did not, 

 however, wait the assault, but 

 withdrew in the night across the 

 Eille. After various movements of 

 the several corps of the army, and 

 the reduction of some positions of 

 the enemy, the Swedes under count 

 Stedingk advanced near Lubeck, 

 with the intention of taking it by 

 escalade. But before the ladders 

 were brought up, a parley took 

 place, in consequence of which 

 general Lalleraand evacuated the 

 town with his garrison on the 

 night of the 6th, on the con- 

 dition that they should not be 

 pursued till the following morning. 

 Lubeck was entered by the Swedes 

 on the same night, and another of 

 the Hanse towns was thus restored 

 to its ancient state of freedom. The 

 French were pursued by the caval- 

 ry on the next day, and many of 

 them were taken prisoners. The 

 Crown Prince now marched to- 

 wards the Danish frontier, and 

 fixed his liead-quarters at Neu- 

 munster on the 11th. Davoust, 

 who had retreated to Hamburg, 

 *nadc a strong sortie with his ca- 

 valry, which drove before it some 

 advanced posts of Cossacks, but 

 was afterwards beaten back with 



loss. The allied army proceeded 

 towards Holstein, and Gen. Tet- 

 tenborne crossed the Eyder, and 

 occupied Frederickstadt, Tonnin- 

 gen, and Husura, pushing detach- 

 ments towards Flensburg and 

 Schleswig. General Skioldebrand 

 coming up with the retreating Danes 

 at Bornhoft had a sharp action with 

 them, in which many fell on both 

 sides. The Danes, still pursued, 

 and cut off from all communica- 

 tion with Davoust, endeavoured to 

 force their way to Rendsburg, 

 which, after a bloody engagement 

 with general Walraoden, they at 

 length reached. Being there en- 

 tirely surrounded, the Prince of 

 Hesse, their commander, requested 

 an armistice, which was granted 

 by the Crown Prince, whose head- 

 quarters were at Kiel on the I6tb. 

 By its conditions, the whole of 

 Holstein, and the part of Schles- 

 wig bordering the Eyder, were to 

 remain in the possession of the al- 

 lies, who were to have the liberty 

 of possessing themselves, if they 

 were able, of the fortresses of 

 Gluckstadt and Friedriksort. The 

 road from Schleswig to Rendsburg 

 was to be open for provisioning the 

 Danish troops in that town, but 

 no succours were to be sent to 

 them, nor new works to be raised 

 either in attack or defence. The 

 duration of the armistice was fixed 

 from the 15th to the 29th of the 

 current month. A proclamation 

 issued by the Crown Prince in- 

 formed the people of Holstein that 

 their country was taken possession 

 of as a pledge for the cession of 

 Norway to Sweden. Of the ex- 

 cepted fortresses, Friedriksort ca- 

 pitulated on the 19th; and Gluck- 

 stadt, an important place at the 

 mouth of the Elbe, on Jan. 6tb. 



