154 



ANNUAL IIEGI9TER, 1805. 



them, opposed fo whom he had any 

 glory to acquire, his sole care 

 should be to obtain victory with the 

 least clt'ubion of blood. That his 

 soldiers were his children!" 



Bonaparte, having ordoied the 

 states belongin<j to the house of 

 Austria, in Suabia, to be taken pos- 

 session of, directed the march of the 

 Austrian prisoners for France, and 

 the demolition of the fortifications 

 of Uim and Memmingen, set out 

 ■with his army, with the exception of 

 tlie corps under the command of 

 marshal Ney, which, by stipulation, 

 was not to leave the vicinity of 

 Uini until after the 25th, at mid- 

 night, on t]w 2 1 St, for Augsburg, 

 on his route to Bavaria, lie or- 

 dered iitcs dc pout to be construct- 

 ed on the bridges over the Lech, 

 and magazines to be established be- 

 yond them. On the evening of the 

 24th, he reached Munich, wliore he 

 ■»vas received with great l»onours. 

 He was joined here by Murat, who 

 had left a division of the troops, 

 with M'hom ho had pursued the 

 Hrchduke Ferdinand, under the 

 command of JMorti.-.-r and Bcraguay 

 d'Hiliiers, on the other side of the 

 Danube, to descend that river, and to 

 observe the movcinents of the A us- 

 trians in Bohemia^ 



The elector of Bavaria not being 

 returned to his capital, Bonaparte 

 dispatched an aid de cajnp to offer liim 

 escorts on tlic road ; and receiving in- 

 telligence of the opening of the cam- 

 paign in Italy, the former prepared 

 to rejoin the army, now in lull 

 inarch for the Inn. 



The disposition of the French 

 army was thus arranged: Bonaparte, 

 At the head of the main body, ad- 

 vanced tovi'ards Vienna, a,nd had 

 in his front a corps of Austriaiis, 

 whicii hid been reinforced, shortly 

 3 



before, by the first column of the 

 Russian army. Their combined 

 force did not exceed forty-five thou- 

 sand men. To protect his flanks 

 and rear, Bonap.'-rte caused the di- 

 Tision under Mortier, which was on 

 the left shore of the D.inube, to 

 watch the motions of the Austrians 

 in Bohemia, under the archduke 

 Ferdinand : thus he had nothing to 

 apprehend on his left. His right 

 was protected by marshal Ney, who 

 mounted the Lech to the confines 

 of tl\e Tyrol, and opposed the corps 

 stationed in that country under the 

 archduke John. In addition to 

 tlie^e corps, the division of marshal 

 Augereau, which had subsequently 

 passed the Rhine, occupied the 

 parts of Suabia, contiguous to the 

 lake of Constance, so as to prevent 

 any attempt, which might be made 

 on the rear of the French army, 

 from the Voralberg, and, perhaps, 

 to make head against any Prussian 

 corps which might, since the viola- 

 tion of the territory of Anspach and 

 B;irouth, cross the Danube with a 

 similar intention. 



The centre of the French army 

 had noM' reached the Inn, where 

 the Austrians and Russians were 

 posted, and, on the 28lh, effected a 

 passage over that river, in the vi- 

 cinity of Crannau. Marshal Ber- 

 nadotfe, who iiad advanced by Was- 

 scrburgh, proceeded, on the 27th. 

 to Allinmarkt; there he found the 

 bridge broken do\vn, and a strong 

 fort opposed to him ; but a corps 

 of French and Bavarians, who had 

 proceeded by Roth to Rotherheim, 

 lound the passage of the river more 

 practicable at that place, and suc- 

 ceeded in crossing it. 



The enemy were obliged to re- 

 treat, and, in consequencCj both this 



bridge 



