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Excerpt from Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events, During Mission and Employment With the European Armies in the Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814, Vol. 2 of 2
My Lord,
I have the honour to acquaint you that the enemy this day attacked General Milaradowitch's advanced posts, and obliged his corps to retire fully upon the position in front of Wilsdruf, by menacing to turn the general's right flank; but fortunately he did not press much in front, or there would have been loss in the passage of the very long and difficult defile.
The prisoners say it is Marshal Beauharnois' corps and that there are other troops moving on the right and left flanks.
From the columns which I saw, and the bivouac fires of this night, I conceive that there cannot be less than thirty thousand men between Nossen and our position.
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