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Updated: May 26, 2025
The Russians were dislodged from Warsaw, and Thorn was besieged; the Vistula, Bug, Wkra, Narew, and other rivers were bridged; and a commissary department was organized. The seat of war was different indeed from any of those to which Napoleon had hitherto been accustomed.
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.
They moved on and on as long as the horses did not give out." "How did you find them?" "The dog led us." "Are there any huts near here?" "Yes, but they are on the other side of the river. Close here is Wkra." "Whip up the horses," commanded Zbyszko. But the command was easier than the execution of the order.
Since Colonel Savary's death at the passage of the Wkra, the 14th had been commanded by a major.
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.
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