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Cyr fled with the whole of his troops. The bookseller Perthes, Prell, and von Hess, formed a civic guard. The youthful Koerner, a volunteer Jaeger, was the Tyrtaeus of those days: his military songs were universally sung: his father also expressed great enthusiasm. Clausewitz. The Bavarians stood under Raglowich, the Wuertembergers under Franquemont, the Saxons under Reynier.
The French lost eighteen thousand men and eighty guns. The rout was complete. The rearguard, consisting of the Wurtembergers under Franquemont, was again overtaken at the head of the bridge at Zwettau, and, after a frightful carnage, driven in wild confusion across the dam to Torgau.
The Baden corps was captured almost to a man; among others, Prince Emilius of Darmstadt. Baden had been governed, since the death of the popular grandduke, Charles Frederick, in 1811, by his grandson, Charles. Franquemont, with the Wuertemberg infantry, eight to nine thousand strong, acted independently of Normann's cavalry.
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