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Updated: May 23, 2025
The first serious opposition was made at Smolensko, whence the Russians, however, speedily retreated after setting the city on fire. On the same day, the Bavarians, who had diverged to one side during their advance, had a furious encounter in which General Deroy, formerly distinguished for his services in the Tyrol, was killed at Poloczk with a body of Russian troops under Wittgenstein.
Cyr faithlessly abandoned the Bavarians in their utmost extremity, and when all peril was over returned to Poland in order to retake the command. During the retreat from Poloczk he had ordered the bridges to be pulled down, leaving on the other side a Bavarian park of artillery with the army chest and two-and-twenty ensigns, which for better security had been packed upon a carriage.
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