A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia : embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz . with intrepidity the fire of the enemy,and coolly closed the ranks, as soon as a cannon-ball had laid any of our comrades low. In the meantime, the night becoming more ob-scure abated the fire without abating our ardour;and our soldiers, uncertain of their aim, reservedtheir strength and their ammunition for the mor-row. Scarcely had we ceased firing, when theRussians, whose camp resembled a vast amphi-theatre, lighted innumerable fires. The whole oftheir camp was o
A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia : embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz . with intrepidity the fire of the enemy,and coolly closed the ranks, as soon as a cannon-ball had laid any of our comrades low. In the meantime, the night becoming more ob-scure abated the fire without abating our ardour;and our soldiers, uncertain of their aim, reservedtheir strength and their ammunition for the mor-row. Scarcely had we ceased firing, when theRussians, whose camp resembled a vast amphi-theatre, lighted innumerable fires. The whole oftheir camp was one uninterrupted blaze of light,which, while it presented a grand and sublime ap-pearance, formed a striking contrast with ourbivouac, where the soldiers, unable to procurewood, reposed in utter darkness, and heard nosound but the groans of the wounded. Our head quarters were established on the spotwhere the Italian guard was placed in in the underwood, we slept soundlyafter the fatigues of the day, in spite of an im-petuous wind, and a rain excessively cold. To-wards midnight I was awakened by the chief of. THE MOSKWA. 13jt our staff, who informed me that the Emperorwished for a plan of the ground which we hadoccupied the preceding evening. I transmittedit to prince Eugene, Avho immediately sent it toNapoleon. The next morning, at daj break (6thof September), the Viceroy ordered me to com-plete the plan by inspecting the whole line, andapproaching as near the enemy as I possibly could,that I might the better discover the exact natureof the ground on which they were encamped, andespecially to observe whether there were anymasked batteries, or ravines unknown to us*. In obedience to my instructions I advanced, anddiscovered that the Russian camp was situated be-hind the river Kologha upon a narrow eminencCjand that its left was very much weakened by theloss of the redoubt which we had taken the even^ing before. In front of the camp and opposite tous was the villa
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