150 ANNUAL REG 1ST ER, 1805. 



The army under general Mack 

 was now confined to narrow limits ; 

 it occupied a line from Memmingen 

 to Ulm, in which latter place, and 

 the adjacent outworks, that general 

 and the principal part of his force 

 Tyere collected, and which contained 

 magazines abundantly stippliccj. 



In this posture of aliaiis Bona- 

 parte determined upon surrountling 

 the wholp of this army. — With this 

 Tiew he caused the left wing of his 

 array under marshal Soult to advance 

 upon Memmingen, a place of some 

 importance, which had now become 

 the station of the Austrian right, 

 and which was likewise a considera- 

 hle depot for military stores, whilst 

 he proceeded in person, with a most 

 formidable force, to the neighbour- 

 hood of Ulm. 



On the nth the advanced corps 

 under marshal Ney made an attack 

 ©n a body of Austrians strongly 

 posted before Ulm : they were re- 

 ceived with great firmness, and ob- 

 stinately resisted, until the arrival of 

 Eonaparte with strong reinforce- 

 ments. The attack was renewed, 

 and the Frencli, after a desperate 

 opposition, succeeded in carrying 

 all the entrenchments without the 

 town, by some of which it was com- 

 pletely commandecJ. 



Soult had arrived before Mem-. 

 mingen on the 13th, and imrocdi- 

 ately surrounded the place, which 

 surrendered on the day following. 

 The mast striking articles in the 

 ca,pituIation were that the garrison, 

 to the amount of many thousands, 

 should be prisoners of war, &c. 

 the officers released upon their pa- 

 role, and suffered to retain their 

 property, for thQ conveyance of 

 which the French stipulated to pro- 

 vide carriages. 



On the day following (the 15th) 



Soult advanced in pursuit of the 

 archduke Ferdinand, who had re- 

 treated to Bibcracb, but finding 

 that tWeprince had retired from that 

 place towards Ulm, he directed bis 

 course towards Bregenlz, in order 

 to intercept that pass into the Ty- 

 rol. 



The array concentrated at and about 

 Ulm was, by these operations, com- 

 pletely cut off from all communica- 

 tion with the Austrian states, and 

 the whole of the French army in 

 Germany (with the exception of the 

 corps under Hernadotte, w'licii had 

 advanced into Bavaria) surrounded 

 that place. 



It will have been observed by our 

 readers, that, by this last series of 

 movements, the neutrality of Prus- 

 sia was completely violated by the 

 French troops, as they not only 

 passed through the territory of Atis- 

 pach and Bareuth, but occupied 

 those countries. This movement, 

 which, by shortening the route of 

 the French army, gave it jncalcula- 

 ble advantages, appeared for the 

 moment to make some impression 

 upon the court of Berlin ; but we 

 shall not at this moment break off 

 the thread of our narration, or dwell 

 upon this subject, but 

 due consideration 

 chapter. 



The archduke Ferdinand had now 

 no alternative left, but either to be 

 comprised in the fate of the army at 

 Ulm, or to endeavour to force his 

 way to Bohemia through Franconia. 

 He boldly attempted the latter mea- 

 sure, crossed the Danube, and ad- 

 vanced by Nordlingen and Nu- 

 remberg, pursued by Murat and 

 Lanncs. 



He was OTertaken near Nordlin? 

 een, when one whole division un- 



shall give it 

 in an ensuing 



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general 



Werncck, 

 amounting 



