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Updated: May 16, 2025
In spite of their Wagenburg and these Pontoon-Bridges, it appears, there would have been no retreat for the Russians except into Wunsch's cannon: Wagenburg way, latish in the afternoon, there was such a scramble of runaways and retreating baggage, all was jammed into impassability; scarcely could a single man get through. Got to Reitwein without accident.
Finck is due in two days, not here at Lebus precisely, but at another place appointed; Finck will raise him to 50,000; and then business can begin! About Reitwein, between this and Custrin, there arrangements are proceeding, by no means of a showy sort.
On the morrow he crossed to Reitwein; by to-morrow night, there had 23,000 of his fugitives come in to him; but this is now to be Finck's affair, not his! Though at bottom our affairs in regard to the Enemy here are not desperate, I find I shall not now be able to make any detachment for your assistance.
On the fourth day, day after leaving Reitwein, there is this little Document, which still exists, of more comfortable tenor: "My dear Major-General von Wunsch, Your Letter of the 16th to Lieutenant-General von Finck punctually arrived here: and for the future, as I am now recovered from my illness, you have to address your Reports directly to Myself.
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