kaminskoy

Updated: May 4, 2025

General Bennigsen found himself under the necessity of abandoning first the line of the Vistula, and then that of the Bug, and, the French still advancing in numbers not to be resisted by his division, at length threw himself behind the river Wkra, where Kaminskoy, the Russian commander-in-chief, and three other divisions of the army, had by this time taken their ground.

J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart - The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

But in truth, the total want of plan and combination on the part of Kaminskoy was by this time apparent to the veriest tyro in his camp. Symptoms of actual insanity appeared shortly afterwards, and the chief command was transferred, with universal approbation, to Bennigsen. The affairs of Pultusk and Golymin, however, were productive of excellent effects.

J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart - The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

On the 23rd of December Napoleon reached and crossed the Wkra, and Kaminskoy ordered his whole army to fall back upon the line of the Niemen.

J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart - The History of Napoleon Buonaparte