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that the battle was fought 20 wersts from Moscow, on the (27th ult.) 8th Sept. It is said that, Murat is among the prisoners. -Various other letters from St. Petersburgh have been received; they all agree that the result of the battle was in favour of the Russians. It is stated in some of them that the French lost 100 pieces of cannon. One of them concludes with observing, that the rejoicings at St. Petersburgh on account of the victory was excessive: he says he could not write for the roaring of cannon.

No. IV.

(Translation.)-Bulletin 4.

enemy had made on the 5th instant, with a considerable force upon the left flank of our army, nothing of importance was undertaken against us during the whole of the 6th. But yesterday, at day-break, that is to say, about four o'clock in the morning, the enemy, availing himself of the foggy weather, again directed the whole of his forces against our left flank.—The battle became general, and lasted until night: the loss on both sides is great; that of the enemy, to judge from his terrible attacks upon our fortified position, must greatly have surpassed ours. Your Imperial Ma jesty's troops fought with incredible valour. The batteries passed from the possession of one party to that of the other, and the rePrince Koutouzoff, General of Infantry, sult was, that the enemy, with his superior Commander in Chief of all the armies, re- force, has, in no one part, gained an inch ports to his Imperial Majesty as follows, of ground. I remained at night master of from the village of Brodino, under date of the field of battle. So soon as I shall have the 6th September:-After my last most recruited my troops, supplied my artillery, humble report to your Imperial Majesty, in and augmented my forces by reinforcements which I aunounced that I was waiting the from Moscow, I shall, trusting in the asattack of the enemy in the position of Bro-sistance of the Almighty, and the incredible dino, the 5th September, the enemy directed a very strong force against our left flank, which was commanded by Prince Bagration. Observing the impetuosity within the foot by a ball. Lieutenant-Generals which the main force of the enemy threw Toutschkoff, Prince Gortschakoff, Majorthemselves upon this point, I judged it Generals Bachuustieff, Counts, Worouzoff necessary, in order to fix his attack, to di- and Kretoff, have been wounded. We rect it against the heights, which had been have taken from the enemy some prisoners, previously fortified. The engagement last- some guns, and a General of Brigade. It ed, with great obstinacy, from two o'clock is still night; and I have not been able to until very late at night; and your Majesty's procure any more details.—His Imperial troops displayed on that day the bravery Majesty, in acknowledgment of the distinwhich I had observed from my first joining guished services of the General of Infantry, the army. The second division of cuiras- Prince Koutouzoff, has been pleased to apsiers being obliged to make its second attack point him Marshal General, and to grant to in the dusk, particularly distinguished it-him 100,000 roubles, and also five roubles self, and in general all the troops, so far to each soldier who has had a share in this from losing an inch of ground, defeated the memorable battle. enemy on every side, with much greater loss than they sustained themselves: eight guns were taken, of which three, being rendered totally useless, were left on the field. Many officers deserve to be individually named to your Majesty, a list of whom I shall forthwith have the happiness of transmitting; for the present I confine myself to giving your Majesty a precis.

(Translation.)-Bulletin B.

General Prince Koutouzoff, Commander in Chief of the armies, makes most respectfully to his Imperial Majesty the following report from the field of battle at the village of Brodino, the 8th of September.Since my report of the attack which the

valour of the army, see what I can under- . take against the enemy.- Prince Bagration, to our great regret, has been wounded

No. V.

Eighteenth Bulletin of the Grand French
Army.-Mojaisk, Sept. 10, 1812.

On the 4th the Emperor set out from Ghjat, and encamped near the post of Grit neva. -The 5th, at six o'clock in the morning, the army put itself in motion. At two in the afternoon, we perceived the Russians formed with their right upon Moskwa, the left upon the heights on the left bank of the Kologha. At 1,200 toises in advance of the left, the enemy had begun to fortify a fine height, between two woods, where they had placed 9 or 10,000 men. The Emperor having reconnoitred

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did at Austerlitz, at Friedland, Vitepsk, at Smolensk: and that the latest posterity may speak of your conduct this day with pride

-The army answered with reiterated acclamations. The ground on which the army stood was spread with the dead bodies of the Russians killed the preceding day.Prince Poniatowski, who was on the right, put himself in motion to turn the forest on which the enemy rested his left. The Prince of Eckmuhl marched on the skirt of the forest, the division Compans at the head. Two batteries of 60 cannon each, commanding the enemy's position, had been constructed in the night.

who had armed the battery on the right with the artillery of the reserve of the guard, commenced the fire, General Pernetty, with thirty pieces of cannon, put himself at the head of the division Compans (4th of the 1st corps), who skirted the

it, resolved not to lose a moment, and to carry this position. Orders were given to the King of Naples to pass the Kologha, with the division Compans and the cavalry.that it may say of you, 'He was at that Prince Poniatowski, who had marched on great battle under the walls of Moscow.'the right, was in a condition to turn the At the Imperial Camp, on the heights of position. At four o'clock the attack com- Borodino, 7th Sept. three o'clock a. m. menced. In one hour the enemy's redoubt was carried, with the cannon; the enemy's corps driven from the wood, and put to flight, leaving the third part on the field of battle. At seven in the evening the firing ceased. On the 6th, at two o'clock in the morning, the Emperor surveyed the enemy's advanced posts: the day was passed in reconnoitring. The enemy were in a position much contracted. Their left was weakened by the loss of the position on the day before; backed by a large wood, supported by a fine height, crowned by a re-At six o'clock, General Count Sorbier, doubt, planted with twenty-five pieces of cannon. Two other heights, crowned with redoubts at 100 paces from each other, protected their line, as far as a large village which the enemy had destroyed, to cover the ridge with artillery and infantry, and to support the centre. Their right extend-wood, turning the head of the enemy's poed behind the Kologha, in the rear of the village of Borodino, and was supported by two fine heights, crowned with redoubts, and fortified with batteries. This position appeared strong and favourable. It was easy to manœuvre, and to oblige the enemy to evacuate it, but that would have been renouncing our object, and the position was not judged sufficiently strong to render it necessary to avoid fighting. It was easy to perceive that the redoubts were but half formed, the fosse shallow, and neither palisaded nor defended with chevaux-de-frise. We reckoned the enemy's force at about 120 or 130,000 men. Our forces were equal, but the superiority of our troops was not doubtful.- On the 7th, at two in the morning, the Emperor was surrounded by the Marshals in the position taken the evening before. At half past five o'clock, the sun rose without clouds: it had rained the preceding evening." This is the sun of Austerlitz," said the Emperor. Though but the month of September, it was as cold as a December in Moravia. The army received the omen: the drum beat, and the following order of the day was read:"Soldiers there is the field of battle you have so much desired! henceforth victory depends on you: it is necessary to us: it will give us plenty, good quarters for the winter, and a speedy return to your country. Behave yourselves as you

sition. At half past six General Compans
was wounded; at seven the Prince of Eck-
muhl had his horse killed. The attack ad-
vanced; the musketry commenced. The
Viceroy, who formed our left, attacks and
carries the village of Borodino, which the
enemy could not defend; that village being
on the left bank of the Kologha. At seven
the Marshal Duke of Elchingen put himself
in motion, and under the protection of sixty
pieces of cannon, which General Foucher
had placed the evening before against the
enemy's centre, bore upon the centre. A
thousand pieces of cannon spread death on
all sides.- -At eight o'clock the positions
of the enemy were carried, his redoubts
taken, and our artillery crowned his
heights. The advantage of position which
the enemy's batteries had enjoyed for two
hours, now belonged to us.
The parapets
which had been occupied against us during
the attack, were now to our advantage.
The enemy saw the battle lost, which he
thought had only commenced. A part of
his artillery was taken; the rest was with-
drawn to his lines in the rear. In this ex-
tremity he attempted to restore the combat,
and to attack with all his masses those
strong positions which he was unable to
protect. Three hundred pieces of French
cannon placed on these heights, thundered
upon his masses, and his soldiers died at
the foot of those parapets which they had

such a field of battle. Out of six dead bodies, there were five Russians for one Frenchman. Forty Russian Generals were killed, wounded, or'taken; General Bagration was wounded. We have lost the General of Division Montbrun, killed by a cannon-ball; General Count Caulincourt, who was sent to occupy his place, was killed by a shot of the same kind, an hour afterwards.- -The Generals of Brigade Compere, Plauzanne, Marion, and Huart, were killed; seven or eight Generals were wounded, the most of them slightly. The Prince of Eckmuhl has received no injury. The French troops covered themselves with glory, and displayed their great superiority to the Russian troops.- -Such, in a few words, is a sketch of the battle of Moskwa, fought a few leagues in the rear of Mojaisk, and twenty-five leagues from Moscow, near the little river Moskwa. We fired 60,000 cannon-shot, which are already replaced by the arrival of 800 artillery carts, which passed Smolensko previous to the battle. All the woods and villages from the field of battle to this place are covered with dead and wounded.

raised with so much labour, and as a pro- | wounded. Our total loss may be estimated tecting shelter.—— -The King of Naples, at 10,000 men; that of the enemy, at with the cavalry, made various charges. from 40 to 50,000. Never was there seen The Duke of Elchingen covered himself with glory, and displayed as much intrepidity as coolness. The Emperor ordered a charge of the front, the right in advance; this movement made us masters of three parts of the field of battle. Prince Poniatowski fought in the wood with various success. There still remained to the enemy his redoubts to the right. General Count Morand marched thither, and carried them; but at nine in the morning, attacked on all sides, he could not maintain himself there. The enemy, encouraged by this advantage, made his reserve and his last troops advance to try his fortune again. The Imperial Guards formed a part of them. He attacked our centre, which formed the pivot to our right. For a moment it was feared that he might carry the village which was burnt; the division Friant advanced thither: 80 pieces of French cannon immediately arrest, and then annihilate the enemy's columns, which stood for two hours in close order under the chain-shot, not daring to advance, unwilling to retire, and renouncing the hope of victory. The King of Naples decided their uncertainty. He caused the 4th corps of cavalry to make a charge, who penetrated through the breaches which our cannonshot had made in the condensed masses of the Russians, and the squadrons of their cuirassiers; they dispersed on all sides. The General of Division, Count Caulincourt, Governor of the Emperor's Pages, advanced at the head of the 5th regiment of cuirassiers, overthrew every thing, and entered the redoubt on the left by its gorge. From this moment there was no longer any uncertainty. The battle was gained. He turned upon the enemy the 21 pieces of cannon which were found in the redoubt. Count Caulincourt, who had distinguished himself in this fine charge, has terminated his career. He fell dead, struck by a bullet; a glorious death, and worthy to be envied.- It was now two in the afternoon; the enemy had lost all hope; the battle was ended, the cannonade still continued; the enemy fought for retreat and safety, but no longer for victory.The loss of the enemy is enormous; from 12 to 13,000 men, and from 8 to 9,000 Russian horses, have been counted on the field of battle: 60 pieces of cannon and 5,000 prisoners have remained in our power.- We have had 2,500 killed, and thrice that number

We have found here 2,000 killed or amputated Russians. A number of Generals and Colonels are prisoners.The Emperor was never exposed; neither the foot nor horse guards were engaged, or lost a single man. The victory was never uncertain. Had the enemy, when driven from his intrenchments, not endeavoured to retake them, our loss would have been greater than his; but he destroyed his army by keeping it, from eight o'clock till two, under the fire of our batteries, and in obstinately attempting to regain that which was lost. This was the cause of his immense loss.Every one distinguished himself. The King of Naples, and the Duke of Elchingen, were peculiarly conspicuous. The artillery, and particularly that of the guards, surpassed itself. The actions which have rendered this day illustrious shall be made known in detailed reports.

"Monsieur Bishop of the passage of the Niemen, of the Dwina, the Borysthenes, the combats of Mohilow, of the Drissa, of Polotsk, of Ostrowno, of Smo lensko, and, in fine, the battle of Moskwa, furnish so many respective reasons for addressing thanks to the God of armies; our will, therefore, is, that on receiving this present letter, you concert measures with those to whom it of right belongs. Assemble my

people in the churches to chant prayers, conformably to the usage of the Church in similar circumstances. This letter having no other object, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping. From our Imperial quarters at Mojaisk, the 10th of Sept. 1812. "By the Emperor, NAPOLEON. "The Minister Secretary of State,

"Count DARU."

Report to his Majesty the Emperor and
King.

to each company.-2d. The 1st division'
of grenadiers, consisting of the grenadiers
of the body guard, of St. Petersburgh,
Ekaterinoslay, Taurida, Pawlowski, and
Arakschezeff, commanded by Count Stro-
gonoff, and forming part of the 3d corps
d'armée, was on the extremity of the left,
in the rear of the battery, where it suffered
considerably by the fire of the artillery; it
was flanked by two squadrons of cuirassiers,
which equally suffered without being
brought into action. The respective strength
of these grenadier regiments amounted, be-
fore the battle, to from 8 to 900 men.
Their loss is estimated at one-third, which
they ascribe to the cowardice of the officers,
who abandoned their ranks, and concealed
themselves in the brush-wood. Two
regiments of chasseurs attached to this di-
vision, which were stationed in advance,
were dispersed; their loss is unknown.—
A soldier, named Gregoriot de Pskow, who
has served for nine years in the regiment of
St. Petersburgh, declares, that he never
saw his regiment give way as it did on this
occasion. He says, that before the battle,
Gen. Koutouzoff rode along their line, and
harangued his troops, which, however, did
not produce much effect. This man adds, that
he heard Major Dalin, the commandant of his
regiment, say, that about mid-day Beningsen
had gone 40 versts beyond Mojaisk, to pre-
pare there the means of defence: he believes
that he went to Little Viasma.It was
not known what had become of Tutsckow,
the Commander in Chief of the 3d corps,
or of the 3d division of Kanowitzin, which

Sire, The result of the examination of the prisoners, of whom the greater part are ignorant recruits, or men taken before the close and off the field of battle, as well as almost all of them wounded with bullets, and the greater part dying, has afforded me the following information with regard to some divisions of the enemy's army. 1st. The 12th division, forming part of the 7th corps, composed of the infantry regiments of Smolensko, Narva, Alexopol, and New Ingria, as well as of the 6th and 41st regiments of foot chasseurs, and commanded by Major-General Palitzin, who had succeeded General Kulbakin, wounded at Mohilow, received its recruits, which were drawn from depots, and brought up by Miloradowitz on the 3d instant, in consequence of which the regiments of infantry were raised to 800 each, and the chasseur regiments to 1,200, which makes the strength of this division to have amounted, before the battle, to 4,800 men, exclusive of two companies of artillery, with twentyfour pieces of cannon, from 6 to 12 pound-formed part of it.—3d. The 2d division ers. On the day of the battle of the 7th of September, this division was stationed in the centre of the first line. About two in the afternoon it had already sustained great losses, and was in want of ammunition. A Lieutenant of the regiment of Alexopol, named Peter Voronin, who, having been sent to the reserve to demand more, lost his way among the brush-wood, and was taken after the retreat of the army, declares, that General Rajewsky, commanding the corps d'armée, received a severe contusion, which obliged him to quit the field of battle, and that the General in Chief, Prince Bagration, was wounded. All the prisoners of this division agree in stating, that it lost more than half of its number; that its confusion was complete at the time of its retreat; and that it owed its safety solely to Platow and Uvaroff, who covered it. Those of the 41st chasseurs say, that there scarcely remained 50 men

of grenadiers, consisting of the regiments of Astracan, Fanagoria, Kioff, Moscow, Little Russia, and Siberia, commanded by Prince Charles of Mecklenburgh, and forming part of the 8th corps of Borosdin, was stationed on the 5th of September at the great redoubt, which was taken on the same day, and where it lost its cannon, a Colonel, and more than the half of its men. The regiments of this division were quite full on arriving at Smolensko; but they had not more than 1,000 each on the 5th, before the action; and numbered not more than from 7 to 800 each, on the morning of the 7th, when they were in the village which they were charged to defend, in advance of the batteries of the left flank. It was at this time that the Prince of Mecklenburgh was wounded.4th. The 2d corps of Bagavout had manoeuvred on the 6th and 7th, in order to advance to the left of the line, to support the 3d corps. AH

the prisoners assert, that not one half of ictered Moscow. The enemy had raised on returned to Mojaisk.- The musketeer re- the Sparrow Mountain, two wersts from the giments of Minsk, Tobolsk, Volhynia, and city, some redoubts, which he abandoned. Krementschug, as well as the 4th and 34th chasseurs of the 4th division, commanded by the Prince of Wirtemburg, amounted to 800 men each; and after the battle, none of them could muster 400: it was the same with the regiments of Raizan, Belosersky, Bresc, and Wilmanstradt, as well as the 30th and 48th chasseurs of the division of Alsoufieff.A subaltern of the regiment of Raizan, named Prohoroff, declares, that his Colonel, Avens, was killed; and that during the retreat, he saw on the bank of the river, the General in Chief Tutsckow wounded, as well as the Colonel of the grenadiers of Moscow. This corps had few officers killed, but many wounded. 5th. The 24th division of the 6th corps, which was stationed in the grand central battery, mustered after the battle only 30 men each company, though two days before they amounted to 100 each in the regiments of Shirwansk, Butinkas, Usa, and Tomsk; while the companies of the 19th and 40th chasseurs amounted to 115 men each, by means of recruits drawn from Novogorod Sewersky.-6th. The 2d division of the guards, composed of the Ismailoff and Lithuanian regiments of grenadiers, and of two chasseur regiments of the guards, and of Finland, under the orders of General Lawroff, were stationed in line in the rear of the three batteries on the left of the centre. These regiments suffered considerably from the artillery; but that of Ismailoff having advanced with the bayonet, was so vigorously charged by the cavalry, that not more than 40 men of each company were left to it. General Krapowitski, commanding a brigade, and the Colonel of the regiment of Ismailoff, were there wounded.

SOKOLNICKI, Gen. of Division,
Charged with a special service.

Mojaisk, Sept. 10, 1812.

-The city of Moscow is as large as Paris; it is an extremely rich city, full of palaces of all the nobles of the empire. The Russian Governor, Rostapchin, wished to ruin this fine city when he saw it abandoned by the Russian army. He had armed 3,000 malefactors, whom he had taken from the dungeons; he also summoned together 6,000 satellites, and distributed arms among them from the arsenal.Our advanced guard, arrived in the centre of the city, was received by a fire of mus ketry, which issued from the Kremlin. The King of Naples ordered a battery of a few pieces of cannon to be opened, dispersed this rabble, and took possession of the Kremlin. We have found in the arsenal 60,000 new muskets, and 120 pieces of cannon on their carriages. The most complete anarchy reigned in the city; some drunken madmen ran through its different quarters, and every where set fire to them. The Governor Rostapchin had caused all the merchants and shopkeepers to be carried off, through whose instrumentality order might have been re-established. More than 400 French and Germans were arrested by his orders; in fine, he had taken the precaution of carrying off the firemen with the fire-engines; so that the most complete anarchy has desolated this great and fine city, and the flames are devouring it. We have found in it considerable resources of every kind. The Emperor is lodged in the Kremlin, which is in the centre of the city, like a kind of citadel, surrounded by high walls. Thirty thousand wounded or sick Russians are in the hospitals, abandoned, without succour and without nourishment,

-The Russians acknowledge that they lost fifty thousand men in the battle of the wounded. A list has been made of the Moskwa. Prince Bagration was mortally

Russian Generals wounded or killed in the battle: it amounts to between forty-five and

Nineteenth Bulletin of the Grand Army. fifty.
Moscow, Sept. 16.

After the battle of the Moskwa, the French army pursued the enemy upon Moscow, by the three routes, Mojaisk, Svenigorod, and Kalouga.- -The King of Naples was on the 9th at Koubinskoe, the Viceroy at Rouza, and Prince Poniatowski at Feminskoe. The head-quarters were on the 12th transferred from Mojaisk to Peselina; on the 13th they were at the castle of Berwska; on the 14th, at mid-day, we en

Twentieth Bulletin of the Grand Army.

Moscow, Sept. 17.

The Russians have celebrated Te Deum for the battle of Polotsk. Te Deums have been sung for the battles of Riga, for the battle of Ostrowno, and for that of Smolensko. According to the Russian accounts, they were every where conquerors, and they drove the French to a great distance

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