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Updated: May 25, 2025
Mort aux Prussiens!" In connexion with that last cry it was a curious circumstance that from the beginning to the end of the war the French persistently ignored the presence of Saxons, Wuertembergers, Hessians, Badeners, and so forth in the invading armies.
From this point they were linked to the First and Second Bavarian Corps, opposite Bazeilles; they, in turn, to the Eleventh and Fifth Corps; and they, at Dom-le-Mesnil, to the Wuertembergers. The Sixth Prussian Corps was placed in reserve between Attigny and Le Chene. A word now as to the nature of the ground on which the impending battle was to be fought.
Cyr fled with the whole of his troops. The bookseller Perthes, Prell, and von Hess, formed a civic guard. The youthful Koerner, a volunteer Jaeger, was the Tyrtaeus of those days: his military songs were universally sung: his father also expressed great enthusiasm. Clausewitz. The Bavarians stood under Raglowich, the Wuertembergers under Franquemont, the Saxons under Reynier.
A great number of Bavarians, however, remained under General Zoller to garrison Thorn, and about fifteen hundred of them returned home. At the passage of the Beresina, the Wuertembergers had still about eighty men under arms, and in Poland about three hundred assembled, the only ones who returned free.
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