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Yet once more he plunged into the Erzgebirge, engaged in a fruitless skirmish in the defile above Kulm, and again had to lead his troops back to Pirna and Dresden. A third move against Blücher led to the same wearisome result. The allies, having worn down the foe, planned a daring move.
Mr. Kulm had evidently run all the way, for he was laboring heavily and his gait had long since slackened into a stumbling trot. His eyes were rolling wildly; his fresh young cheeks were purple and sheathed in perspiration. Miss Warren exclaimed, crossly: "Oh, dear! I didn't send for Bernie. I'll bet he's furious." And so it proved.
"If she was at the Rigi Kulm, it's Anna." "Well, I had the pleasure of meeting her there, but I am afraid I was somewhat of a persona non grata with her," I said, in a partial attempt to make a joke of it He dropped his glance, leveled it at me once more, and dropped it again "Why, what was the matter?" he inquired, in great embarrassment "Nothing was the matter.
I felt like a man sipping at a glass of wine when the glass is suddenly seized from his hand Some time later I sat on a cane chair amid flower-beds in front of the Rigi Kulm, inhaling the scented evening air and gazing down the sloping side of the lawn. Women and girls were returning from the post-office, many of them with letters in their hands.
The best of these roads crosses the Erzgebirge by way of Nollendorf and the gorge leading down to Kulm, the other by the Zinnwald pass, while between them is a third and yet more difficult track. Vandamme was to take up a position west or south-west of Pirna so as to cut off the retreat of the foe.
At the junction of the roads, where the fighting was hottest, the Austrians have erected a monument to one of their generals. Not far from it is that of Prussia, simple and tasteful. A woody hill near, with the little village of Kulm at its foot, was the station occupied by Vandamme at the commencement of the battle. There is now a beautiful chapel on its summit which can be seen far and wide.
Cyr and Mortier to concert measures for the support of Vandamme along the Nollendorf road: but, above all, the return of Napoleon to Dresden, and his neglect to secure a timely co-operation of his forces along the eastern line of pursuit. The disaster at Kulm ruined Napoleon's campaign.
Under the impression that he would be supported he descended boldly, on the 29th of August, towards Kulm from where, pushing enemy troops before him, he sought to reach Teplice; it is a certainty that if Mortier and Saint-Cyr had carried out the orders which they had been given, the Russian, Austrian and Prussian forces, stuck on the appalling roads, cut off from Bohemia and finding themselves attacked in front and in the rear, would have laid down their arms.
The armistice broken. Treachery of Jomeni. A painful check. Chap. 25. The battle of Dresden. Vandamme at Kulm. Chap. 26. Oudinot and Macdonald both suffer defeat. The plateau of Jauër. We recross the Katzbach. Chap. 27. Forces concentrate at Dresden. The Baskirs. Chap. 28. The battle of Leipzig. Chap. 29. Vain attempt at armistice. Battle of 18th October. Bernadotte fights against us.
Cyr and Mortier to concert measures for the support of Vandamme along the Nollendorf road: but, above all, the return of Napoleon to Dresden, and his neglect to secure a timely co-operation of his forces along the eastern line of pursuit. The disaster at Kulm ruined Napoleon's campaign.
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