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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



Joannes, Mith the divisions of] 



cd towards the Lech, where lie nube at Neuburg, arrived on th6' 

 forced the enemy, v. ho were there cveiiins; of the seventh at Aicha 

 posted, to retreat with sonic loss, with his three divisions. Mariuont,' . 

 Murat remained that night at lla- wilh the divisions of Boudet, Gru- 

 iu. chy, and the Batavians under gc- 



On the 0th, marshal Soult, with ncral Dumonceaii, had taken a po- 

 ihe two divisions of V'aiuiainme. sition between Aicha and Augs- 

 and Lc Grand, inarched towards burgh. 



Aiigsburgh, while general St. ili- Beniadotte, with the Bavarian 

 laire, with his division, advanced army under generals de Hoy and 

 to the same point, by the left bank Vcrden, had taken possession of 

 of the Danube. On the same Ingolsladt, and the imperial guard, 

 morning, prince Murat, at the head commanded by marshal Bessieres, 

 of the d;vi.-ioiis of cavalry com- together with the division of ciii- 

 mandcd by the generals Beaumont, rassiers, under general Ilaulpoulf, 

 Klein, and iJensouty, in the view of arrlvedat Au2sburgh. 

 cutting ofr the communication be. By this time Murat, with Klein's, 

 tvvecii L'lii) and Augsburgli. ou his Beaumont's, and Bensouty's divi- 

 arrival at Wertingen, encountered sions of cavalry, had occupied ti" 

 a considerable body of the cue- village of Zusmersbaiisen, to in- 

 Biy's infantry, supported by four tercept tiie road from Ulm to Augs- 

 iijiiadious of Albert's cuirassiers. — burgh. 

 Marshal J<anneH, who, with the 



divisi>.n of Oudinot, followed Gudiuot and Suchet, took post at'] 

 these corps of cavalry, succeeded the same village on the iame day. 

 in detVating and making tjie great. Here Bonaparte reviewed thel 

 . est part of this portion of the troojis, and testified his satisfaction' [ 

 Austrian army prisoners, together at their conduct at the battle of I 

 with their artillery and baggage. Werfinge\), and distributed marks of ] 

 The loss of the .-\ustriaiis, upon honour to two dragoons, who had-! 

 this occasion, was eight standards, particularly distinguished themselves' I 

 the whole of their cannon, two on that occasion, 

 lieutenant colonels, six majors. This action at AVeriingen was i 

 sixty officers of inferior rank, and shortly after followed by one ati 

 four thousand rank and file. Guntzburgh. Marshal Ney, who 



On the same day marshal Da- with the drvisions of Malher, Du- 

 Toust arrived at \euburg, and l^ont, and Loison, the dismounted 

 likewise general Marmont with his dragoons of Baraguay d'Hilliert 

 corps, and Bernadotle and the Ba- and the division of Gazcn, having 

 varians had advanced to Aichstet- re-ascendcd the Danube, attacked 

 fin. the enemy in their position at Griin- 



Marshal Soult, after having put berg, succeeded in passing the river 

 to flight a body of Austriaus, which at Gnntzburgh, notwithstanding a 

 had retreated to Aicha, entered gallant resistance on the part of the 

 Augsburgh on the 7th, with the di- Austrians, who had advanced from 

 visions of Vandamme, St. Hilaire, Ulm to that place, in the view of col- 

 and Le Grand. lecting a sufficient farce to act of* 



Duvouiiit, who had passed the Da- fensively. 



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