Identifier: decisivebattless00knox (find matches)
Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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in the neighbor-hood of Metz. The French right wing was supposed tobe at Amanvillers. It was necessary, in order to reachthat position, for the three leading corps of the SecondArmy of the Germans to wheel to the right: a little morereconnoitring showed that the battle was to be on thebroad plateau embraced between Amanvillers, Leipsic, andMoscou. As the Germans advanced, they found that the Frenchright extended considerably beyond Amanvillers, andhence the Guards came first into contact with the enemy.Prince Frederick Charles ordered the advance to Verne-ville to be continued, and fire was opened on the Frenchabout noon. This may practically be said to have beenthe beginning of the great battle. Verneville is in theopen ground between the Bois de la Casse and the Boisdes Perivaux, only the latter of these woods having beenoccupied by the French. The Bois de la Casse was im-mediately occupied by the Germans, and they opened anartillery fire against the French, though they were a good
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335 336 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. deal troubled by a flank fire from machine guns and small-arms. The fight at this point was maintained for at leasttwo hours by the nth corps, when it was relieved by theartillery of the Prussian Guards Corps which came in onthe north. While this was going on, the French attacked the 25thdivision with a furious artillery fire to the westward ofBois de la Casse. They were strongly posted at St. Privatand Amanvillers, and it was very evident that here somevery hard fighting would be required to drive them out. About noon, the Prussian Guards renewed the advancefrom Doncourt and Caulre-Ferme. The extension of theFrench right beyond Amanvillers made it necessary forthe entire corps of the Guards to make a larger sweepthan had been originally contemplated, in order to attackthe French right wing in flank and double it up. Accord-ingly, Prince Frederick Charles, who had reached Verne-ville about one oclock, ordered the Guards to march onHabonville, i

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