Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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erestricken down, Riichel himself was wounded in the chest; the Saxondivision of Niesemeuschel, which continued to hold the Schnecke, wassurrounded and captured. The main army late in the evening of the i;3th reached Aiierstiidt.Brunswick had as little suspicion of Davouts proximity as the latterthought of encountering the Prussian main l)ody ; he expected oidyto march with his oO,000 men t(^ jVp(jlda fiir the purpose of joiningBernadotte, and then falling upon the rear of the enemy defeated atJena. But when he began his march on the 14th, at six oclock in themorning, his advance, which had been ordered to secure the Kosen pass,fell in with the enemy at Hassenhausen. Around this village a fierceconflict arose; here also the brave but scattered attacks attempted bythe Prussians were repulsed by Davout with immovable steadiness;Brunswick himself received a mortal wound from a ball which deprivedhim of sight; Generals Schnicttan and W^artenslelx-n foil. Davont seized 26 TUE WORLD EMPIRE.
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2;I THE BATTLE OF AÜERSTÄDT. 27 by storm the heights of Eckartsberga and occupied them with artillery.It would still have been possil)l( for the Prussians to force their waythrough the pass, but the king saw only the severe losses. He resolved,therefore, to unite iiimself with Hohenlohe, of whose fate he knewnothing, and then with stronger forces to renew the effort; he ordereda retreat to Weimar. Davouts victory was more important and morebrilliant than that of Napoleon; but the emperors bulletin reversedall this, and made Auerstädt a mere episode of the battle of Jena. ButDavout, who had lost nearly half of his men, was too much exhausted toharass the retreat of the Prussian army. They therefore were able tocome on in tolerable order, till, upon the heights of Apolda, they metBernadotte hastening up from Dornburg and saw themselves ridden downand their ranks torn througii l>y the Hying squadrons of Hohenloheclosely pursued by the Frencii cavalry. More fatal for the Prussians t

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