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Brigade had commenced a turning movement against the French left. 
La Maladerie and Orgeres were evacuated as they approached, and 
soon the two Horse Artillery Batteries and that belonging to the 
Bavarian Cuirassier Brigade were in action at La Frileuse. It will be 
as well to make one story of the performances of these batteries as it 
is on the mobility which they displayed in making this flank attack 
that we desire to dwell. At 2 o'clock, therefore, an even bolder attack 
was determined on by Prince Albrecht, who commanded them. 
The 9th Cavalry Brigade (two Uhlan Regiments) and the 5th Cuiras¬ 
sier Regiment were to go forward on the line Gommiers-Terminiers 
to cut the enemy's line of retreat, while the Bavarian Cuirassier 
Brigade was to sweep round still further on the German right. 
The 10th Cavalry Brigade (two regiments) were to be held in re¬ 
serve. 
The batteries to accompany the cavalry. 
While the movement was in progress, however, French guns opened 
fire from Faverolle and Gommiers, and the Cavalry Division fell back 
to Chauveux Farm, one Horse Artillery Battery came into action on 
the north-west of Nonneville against a French battery on the north of 
Villepion, and two Bavarian Horse Artillery Batteries also hurried up 
across country at a rapid trot from where they had been in action at 
La Maladerie and supported it from the south-west of Nonneville. 
When the hostile guns had been silenced this battery again moved 
forward and unlimbered on the right of the Bavarian batteries. The 
three soon drove the French guns at Faverolles off the field, and then 
commenced to shell the village and the infantry posted there. 
About 3 o'clock several regiments of French cavalry attempted to 
advance from the west of Guillonville, but as soon as they appeared 
the Horse Artillery Battery, which was waiting at Chauveux Farm 
trotted out to meet them, and its fire was so effective that the French 
horsemen turned and left the field. Its fellow battery also joined in 
the fight with the cavalry at a range of 1200 metres. A second 
attempt which the cavalry made to advance from the other side of the 
village was similarly foiled by the fire of these two batteries and we 
read that the French squadrons retreated so precipitately that the 
three Cuirassier regiments sent out from Chauveux Farm to attack 
them, could never catch them up. 
Now the mobility displayed in these different movements by the 
German batteries is most praiseworthy. The performance of the Bavar¬ 
ian ones is especially remarkable, and they covered distances of 5000 
metres (more than three miles) over the fields at a rapid pace, and 
showed the greatest quickness and readiness also in the various minor 
changes of position. From La Maladerie to Faverolles is more than 
four miles, and from Nonneville to La Frileuse two, distances being 
measured in each case as the crow flies. 
The ground was fairly level, as is the plain of the Marchfeld. It 
should be noted, however, that there was a sharp frost, and that the 
surface of the fields was hard and favourable therefore to the guns. 
Yet the movements just described are, nevertheless, a remarkable 
display of mobility, and General Chanzy has admitted that the bold 
