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Thi"; force occupied Guntzbnrgh, 

 ros ted with its right on the viliape 



: of Limpach, and its left on Kei-crs. 



j burgh, and was in possossicin of tlie 



, bridges on the Danube as far as 

 Lciphcini. A small corps -vvhich 

 had passed the rircr, had, as wo 

 have already stated, been driven 

 back wifh loss. 



The French pursned their advan- 

 tage, and attacked the bridges, which 

 were defended with sonic obstinacy. 

 The division under general i\la!- 

 her at length overcame the principal 

 obstacle, by making themselves 

 master of the bridge and causeway 

 leading to Gnntzbuigh. 'J'he arch- 

 duke Ferdinand made a brave at- 

 tempt to defend this post, but was 

 finally forced to abandon it, and he 

 retreated to Ulm, witii the loss of 

 nearly 3.000 men, and the greatest 

 part of his cannon. 



The assailants suffered considera- 



i biy from the grape shot of the Aus- 

 trians ; however, they were amply 

 recompensed bj' the possession of a 

 fine military position. 



During these transactions, the 

 centre of the French army passed 

 the Danube at Donawert, Neuburg, 

 and the left wing still lower down 

 at Ingolstadt. This latter portion 

 ofthearmy, under the orders of Ber- 

 nadotte, took post at Pfulfcrhausen, 

 on the road to Munich, whilst the 

 main body proceeded across the 

 I-ecli, by Ziirniershaus?n to Augs- 

 burgh, which place became tlie 

 I French head quarters. 



At the passage of the Lech Bo- 

 naparte harangued his troops, in- 

 forming them of the critical situa- 

 tion of the enemy, and that they 

 were shortly to expect a general en- 

 gagement. 



By this succession of bold and ra- 

 pid movements, the whole of the 

 French army was now placed be- 



tween Vienna and the Austrian 

 forces under general Mack. 



Under these circumstances the 

 corps under IJernadotte, in conjunc- 

 tion with (he IJavarians, forming to- 

 gether a body of about -40,000 men, 

 were ordered to advance towards 

 the Inn, in order to make head 

 against the Austrian and Russian 

 reinioic:?nients, whilst, with the re- 

 mainder of the army, Bonaparte 

 marched against .Mack. 



liernadotte entered Munich on 

 the 12th, when he made about 800 

 prisoners, having captured on his 

 march the baggage of the Austrian 

 guards. lie lost no time in cros- 

 sing the Inn at that tow n, and con- 

 tinued his march on the high road 

 to Brannau, where the first Russian 

 column had arrived, and joined the 

 troops under general Kienmeyer, 

 which had evacuated Bavaria, and 

 had fallen back upon (hat fortress. 

 On the loth he fell in with some 

 Austrian detachments at Wasser- 

 burg and Haag, took a few hundred 

 prisoners, and several pieces of can- 

 non, lie then took up a strong po- 

 sition near the Inn, from which he 

 could observe the combined army, 

 and attack to advantage, should they 

 attempt to pass that river. 



By this manoeuvre, Bonaparte 

 was enabled to direct his main 

 . force against Mack. 



On the 10th marshal Soult was 

 detached from the left >5!ith his corps 

 to occupy Landsberg ; they fell in 

 with a corps of Austrian cuirassiers, 

 >\ ho, after a short conflict, were 

 compelled to retreat to Ulm, with 

 the loss of some prisoners and two 

 pieces of cannon. By this event 

 the French gained possession of a 

 ])ass of considerable importance, as 

 forming a communication bctwcea 



Ulm and the Tyrol. 

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