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CHAPTER XXIV. 

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High opinion of cavalry iiold by Napoleon — Changes made by liini in 

 organization ol' French Ciivalry— Camp at Boulogne — Napoleon's 

 thorough appreciation of value of light cavalry to reconnoitre, &c. — 

 Re-introduction of cuirassiers — His corps of guides — The consular 

 guard — The carabineers — The cuirassiers — The dragoons — The lancers 

 — The chasseurs-a-cheval — The hussars — Establishment of cavalry 

 schools — Napoleon's method of using cavalry — Mutual support of all 

 three arms — Battle of Castiglione — Marengo — Charge of Kcllerman's 

 cavalry — Result of this charge — Combat of Wcrtingen — Campaign 

 of Ulm — Pursuit by Murat of the Archduke Ferdinand and General 

 Werncck in October, 1805 — Great successes of Murat — Battle of 

 Austerlitz — Campaign of IHOG — Battle of Jena — Pursuit of Prussian 

 troops — Extraordinary successes of French cavalry — Entire destruction 

 of Prussian army — Battle of Eylau — Great cavalry charges — Subse- 

 quent cavalry operations — Superiority of Cossacks — Battle of Ecknmhl 

 — Capture of guns by cavalry — Cavalry combat at Ratisbon — Battles 

 of Wagram and Dresden — General Steingel — Napoleon's views on ob- 

 taining information — His skilful use of cavalry — Cavalry generals 

 under Napoleon — Murat — Kellerman — Bessieres — Montbrun — Lasalle. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Cavalry under Napoleon — continued. . . 



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Section I. — Russian Cavalry under Alexander I. 



Napoleonic wars bring prominently before Europe the llussian army — 

 Especially the Cossacks — Russian cavalry in 1810 and 1811 — Cossacks 

 — Their arms, &c. — Battle of Austerlitz — Heilsberg — Krasnoi — Gallant 

 conduct of Neworofskoi — Battle of Borodino — Charge of Caulaincourt's 

 cuirassiers upon redoubt — Katzbaeh — Culm — Leipzig — F6re Champe- 

 noise — Gallant charge led by the Czar — Cossp.cks in the minor operations 

 of the war — Campaign of 1812 — Destruction of French cavalry — 

 Ketreat to Malo Jaroslavitz — Cossacks in the pursuit to Wilna — 

 Comments on their value — Partisan operations in 1813 — Capture of 

 Hamburg — Lunenburg — Chernicheff at Halbertstadt — Capture of Cassel 

 — System of fighting of Cossacks — Examples — General Brack's views 

 on Cossacks — General Morand's — Captain Ganzauge. 



Section II. — Austrian, Prunsian, and English Cavalry in the Napoleonic 



Wars. 



The Austrian cavalry — The Prussian cavalry — Battle of Lutzen — Hanau — 

 Suprise of Eocquencourt — The English cavalry — Battle of Salamanca 

 — Combat at Garcia Hernandez — Battle of Waterloo. 



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Cavalry in Russia under Nicholas I. — Battle of Elizabethpol— Madatoffi at 

 Schumla— Polish War of 1830, 1831— Battle of Dembe Velky— 

 Partisan campaign in Lithuania — Mahnratta cavalry in India — Lord 

 Lake's campaign — War in Algiers. 



