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The emperor arrived before Brunn on the 20th of No¬ 
vember, at ten o’clock ii> the morning. A deputation of 
the Moravian hates, with their bifhop at their head, went 
out to meet him. The emperor took a review of the 
fortrefs, and can feci the citadel to be taken poilelTion of, 
in which he found 6000 hand of arms, a great quantity of 
ammunition, and 400,000 pounds of gunpowder. The 
Ruffians had collected their cavalry, which formed a corps 
of 6000 men, with a view to defend the point ofjunftion 
of the roads leading front Brunn and Olmutz. General 
Wattie-r cppofed them the whole day, and forced them, 
at length, to abandon their ground. General Hautpouh’s 
divifion of cuirafliers, alfo co-operated ; and marefchal 
Befli<-res, commander of the imperial guards, executed a 
brilliant entcrprife by which the enemy were completely 
driven in. 
But the day was now at hand when all thefe partial 
fkirmihies were to fubfide, and on which the fate of 
Europe was to be decided by the battle of Aufterlitz ; a 
conteff equally obhinate and fanguinary; yet it was tlie 
only pitched battle that was fought during the whole 
campaign, and the only formidable (land made at all by 
tlie allies againfl the armies of Napoleon. For fome days 
previous to this arduous conflift, both fides were equally 
(editions in choofing their pofitions, in fecuring their 
flanks, and obtaining flip advantage of ground. On the 
26th of November prince Conftantine’s fine corps of ca¬ 
valry took a pofition at Oltfchau. On the 27th, the Auf- 
trian and Ruffian line advanced upon Grofnitz, and prince 
Pangrazion, with the advanced guard, was polled at Wif- 
chau. On the 27th, the fir ft column of the 3d Ruffian 
divifion arrived at Troppau. The French were in the 
mean time forming between Brunn and Aufterlitz. On 
the 29th, the emperor of Germany’s head-quarters were 
at Wifchait, front whence they were removed to Kremfir. 
On the 30th, their left wing was at Krentfir, and their 
advanced guard near Hardifh. On the j ft of December 
the head-quarters of their imperial majefties of Auftria 
and Ruflia were at Knzarowitz, two leagues in advance 
front Aufterlitz. The French, upon the fame day, were 
completely formed on the Scliwrzach, in a line extending 
north and fouth, with their right wing near Nicholfburgh, 
and their left towards Brunn. Such was the pofition of 
thefe great contending armies on the day preceding the 
battle. 
The divifions of the Ruffian army, or the principal 
part, at lead, of what remained of them, were now united 
under the very able generals Kutufow, Bttxhovden, and 
the grand prince Conftantine ; and were faid to conlift of 
80,000 of their choiceft foldiers; the emperor Alexander 
was prefent, to infpect and approve their operations. To 
this army was united 25,000 Andrians, of their 1110ft ex¬ 
perienced troops, and of unqueftionable fidelity, under the 
command of prince John of Leichtenftein, aflifted by the 
emperor Francis 11 . 
The army of Napoleon, which engaged in this memo¬ 
rable action, confided of one hundred thoufand veteran 
troops under his own immediate direction and command. 
He placed marefchal Lafnes at the head of the left wing, 
marefchal Soult at the head of tlie right, and to trtaref'- 
chal Bernadotte he gave tite command of the centre. 
Prince Murat, as ufual, led the cavalry. The emperor 
himfelf, with his whole general ftaff, ten battalionsof the 
imperial guard, and ten battalions of general Oudinot’s 
grenadiers, formed the referve of the army. Thefe troops 
were difpofed in column, in a double line, and drawn 
up in battalions^ but placed at fitch a diftance front each 
other, that fufficient fpace was left for deploying. In thefe 
intervals forty pieces of cannon were placed, which were 
ferved by the artillery of the guard. 
The morning dawn of the 2d of December began at 
length to appear, but feemed to approach too (lowly for 
the wifttes of both armies. Surrounded by all his 
marefchals, tlie emperor Napoleon waited until the 
horizon was perfeftly clear, before he communicated 
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his final inftruftions, When the fun (hot forth his fivft 
ray, the laft order was given, and all the marefchals rode 
off at full gallop to their refpeftive ftations. In a moment 
the cannonade became heavy on the extremity of the right 
wing, which the advanced guard of the Ruffians Itad al¬ 
ready reached. There, however, they unexpectedly fell 
in with marefchal Davouft, who made them halt, and 
tIre battle became furious. At the fame time, marefchal 
Soult put himfelf in motion, and advanced with the divi¬ 
fions of generals Vandamme and St. Hilaire, towards tlie 
heights of the village of Protzen. In confequence of 
thefe operations, the right wing of the Ruffian army found 
itfelf completely turned; all its plans were deranged. 
Surprifed by a movement on the flank, they endeavoured 
to-retreat. Where they had propofed to attack, they 
found thentfelves fuddenly attacked. Front that moment 
their right wing was half defeated. 
The cavalry under prince Murat now began to aft. 
The left wing, under the command of general Lafnes, 
marched forward alfo, with the troops drawn up in tlie 
form of regiments, in the fame manner as if they had 
been exerciling by divifions. The centre under marefchal 
Bernadotte likewife advanced, and inftantly a terrible can¬ 
nonade refounded all along the whole line. Two hundred 
pieces of cannon, and more than two hundred thoufand 
men, all engaged at one time, produced a mod tremendous 
and awful feene ! It was truly a giant conteft. The battle 
was too ardent to be of long duration : it had lafted only 
two hours, when the left wing of the Ruffians was cutoff’, 
and their right driven back to Aufterlitz. 
The head-quarters of the two allied emperors were at 
Aufterl'uz, and they were obliged to give orders to the 
Ruffian imperial guard to advance to re-eftabliflt, if pofli- 
ble, the junftion of their left wing with the centre. 
Marefchal Beffieres moved forward with his corps, and 
immediately the French imperial and Ruffian imperial 
guards were clofely engaged. The Ruffian guard was 
driven back in diforder. Its commanders, artillery, and 
ftandards, were at once in the power of the vidtors. Even 
the grand prince Conftantine, whole regiment was entirely 
cut to pieces, had only to thank the fleetnefsof his horfe 
for his efcape. But the aftion was ftill obftinately main¬ 
tained by the remaining part of the Ruffian army. The 
centre of the French bravely withftood the vvell-direfted 
attacks of the Ruffian cavalry. The French left wing 
alfo continued its repeated attacks, in all of which it was 
viftorious. 
At one o’clock, P. M. the victory, which never was 
doubtful, was decifively on the fide of the French. But 
the cannonade was ftill maintained on the French right 
wing. The Ruffian corps which had been cut off was 
furrounded, compelled to abandon all its pofitions, forced 
back into a hollow, and driven up againft a lake, where 
great numbers fpread themfelves over its icy furface, till 
giving way, moft of them were drowned. At the fame 
time two columns of four thoufand men each, laid down 
their arms, and gave up their artillery. 
The refult of this viftory placed in the hands of the 
French, 150 pieces of cannon, forty Ruffian ftandards, in¬ 
cluding the coloursof the emperor Alexander's life-guard, 
fifteen Ruffian generals made prifoners, among whom were 
the princes Gallitzin and Repnin ; and, finally, near 
twenty thoufand Ruffians were taken prifoners. The 
Ruffians befides, left fifteen thoufand dead upon the field 
of battle. The French ftated their lofs to be nine hun¬ 
dred killed, and (ixteen hundred wounded. The Auftrians 
had fix hundred killed, and near one thoufand wounded. 
Notone corps of the French army was penetrated, except 
a fingle battalion of the 4th'regiment, which had to fuf- 
tain the whole of the firft attack of the Ruffian imperial 
guard. 
The French generals of divifion St. Hilaire, Kellerman, 
and Wattier, the generals of brigade Valbert, Thibault, 
Sebaftiani, and Compans, and general Rapp, were among 
the wounded. This laft general headed the grenadiers of 
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