pieces of field artillery. It appeared more simple to throw some fresh bridges over the Danube, a few leagues lower down and thus render useless the field of battle prepared by the enemy. But in this latter case it was not thought practicable to avert the inconveniencies which had already nearly proved fatal to the army, and succeed, in the course of two or three days, in protecting these new bridges from the machines of the enemy.-On the other side the Emperor was tranquil. -Works were raised upon works in the island of Lobau; and several bridges on piles, and several rows of stoccadoes, were fixed at the same place. This situation of the French army placed between these two great difficulties, had not escaped the enemy. He was aware that his army, too numerous and unweildly, would be exposed to certain destruction if he acted on the offensive; but at the same time, he believed that it was impossible to dislodge him from the central position, in which he covered Bohemia, Moravia, and a part of Hungary. It is true that this position did not cover Vienna, and that the French were in possession of the capital. But this possession was in a certain degree, disputed, since the Austrians remained masters of one bank of the Danube, and prevented the arrival of the articles most indispensible to the subsistence of so great a city. These were the reasons of hope and fear, and the subject of conversation in the two On the 1st. of July, at four o'clock in the morning, the Emperor removed his head-quarters to the island of Lobau, which had been already named by the engineers the island Napoleon. A small island to which had been given the name of the Duke of Montebello, and which bore upon Enzersdorf, had been furnished with ten mortars, and twenty 18-pounders. Another island called island Espagne, had been supplied with six pieces of battering cannon, 12-pounders, and 4. mortars. Between these two islands a battery had been raised, equal in force to that of the island Montebello, and in like manner bearing upon Enzersdorf. These 62 pieces of battering artillery had the same object, were in two hours to destroy the little town of Enzersdorf, drive away the enemy, and demo-, lish the works. On the right, the island Alexander, with four mortars, two ten-, pounders, twelve six-pounders, battering cannon, were to bear upon the plain, and protect the operations of the bridges. -On the 2d. the aide de camp of the Duke de Rivoli, passed over to the Mill island with 500 voltigeurs, and took possession of it. This island was also furnished with cannon. It was joined to the continent, on the left side, by a small bridge. In the front a little fleche was raised, and this redoubt was called Petit.-In the evening the redoubts of Essling appeared to be jealous of these works; not doubting that they were a first battery, formed to act against themselves, they fired upon them with great activity. This was precisely the inten tion in having seized this island.-The attention of the enemy was to be drawn to this point, in order to conceal from him the operations really proposed. Passage across the arm of the Danube to the Island Lobau. On the 4th. at ten in the evening, Gen. Oudinot caused 1,500 voltigeurs to be embarked on the great arm of the Danube, commanded by Gen. Conroux. Col. Baste, with ten gun-boats, conveyed them, and disembarked them beyond the little arm of the island Lobay, in the Danube. The batteries of the enemy were soon silenced, and he was driven from the woods to the village of Muhleųten. At eleven in the evening, the batteries raised against Enzersdorf received orders to begin their firing. The howitzers set this unfortunate little town on fire, and in less than half an hour the enemies batteries had ceased to operate. en The chief of battalion, Dessales, director of the bridges, and, gineer of the marine, had prepared in the islaud Alexander, a bridge of 80 toises, of a single piece, and five great ferry boats.-Čel. St. Croix, aide-de-camp of the Duke de Rivoli, embarked in barges with 2,500 men, and landed on the left bank. The bridge of a single piece, the first of the kind which has hitherto been made, was fixed in less than five minutes, and the infantry passed over it with great rapidity. Capt. Bazelle fixed a bridge of boats in an hour and an half, Capt. Payerimoffe formed a bridge of rafts in two hours. Thus, at two o'clock in the morning, the army had four bridges, and had de bouched on the left 1500 toises below Enzersdorf, protected by the batteries, and the right upon Vittau. The corps of the Duke de Rivoli formed the left; that of Count Oudinot, the centre; and that of On the 5th. at day-break, every one perceived what had been the project of the Emperor, who was then, with his whole army, arranged in order of battle at the extremity of the enemy's left, having turned all his entrenched camps, having rendered his works useless, and thus obliging the Austrians to abandon their positions, and come and offer him battle on the spot that was convenient to him. The great problem was thus resolved, and without passing the Danube on other points-without receiving any protection from the works he had raised, he forced the enemy to fight three quarters of a league from his redoubts. From that moment the greatest and happiest results were presaged. At eight m the morning, the batteries which had played upon Enzersdorf, had produced such an effect that the enemy was obliged to let that town be occupied by no more than four battalions.-The Duke of Rivoli dispatched his first aide-de-camp, St. Croix, against it, who did not meet with a great resistance, and took prisoners all who remained in it. Count Oudinot surrounded the castle of Sachsengang, which the enemy had fortified, forced 900 men who defended it to capitulate, and took 12 pieces of cannon.-The Emperor then caused the whole army to spread itself along the immense plain of Enzersdorf. the left.-From noon till nine in the evening the French armies manoeuvered on this immense plain. All the villages were occupied, and when the French had reached the heights of the entrenched camps of the enemy, they fell of their own accord, and as it by enchantment. The Duke de Rivoli caused them to be occupied without resistance. It was thus we seized the works of Essling and Gros-Aspern, and the labour of 40 days was of no use to the enemy. He made some resistance in the village of Raschdorf, which, the Prince de Ponte Corvo caused to be attacked and carried by the Saxons. The enemy was every where overwhelmed by the superiority of our fire. This immense field of battle was covered with his remains. Battle of Wagram. Strongly alarmed by the progress of the French army, and the great successes which it obtained, with scarcely any effort, the enemy put all his troops in motion, and at six in the evening he occupied the following position :-his right from Stadelan to Gerasdorf, his centre from Gerasdorf to Wagram, and his left from Wagram to Neusiedel. The French army had its left at Gros-Aspern, its centre at Raschdorf, and its right at Glenzindorf. In this position, the day was nearly at a close, and we had necessarily to expect a great battle on the morrow; but this was to be avoided, and the position of the enemy to be intersected, so as to prevent him from forming any plan, by taking possession in the night, of the village of Wagram. In this case, his line, already of an immense length, being suddenly assailed, and exposed to the chances of combat, the different bodies of his army would be dispersed without order or In the meanwhile, the enemy, con- direction, and we should succeed at an founded in all his projects, gradually re- easy rate and without any serious encovered from his astonishment, and engagement. The attack on Wagram took deavoured to regain some advantages in this new field of battle. For this purpose he detached several columns of infantry, a considerable number of pieces of artillery, and all his cavalry, as well of the line as of the new levies, in order to attempt to out flank the right of the French army. In consequence he occupied the village of Rutzendorf. The Emperor ordered Gen. Oudinot to carry this village, to the right of which he sent the Duke of Auerstadt, in order to proceed to the head-quarters of Prince Charles, going always from the right to Battle of Enzersdorf. place, and our troops took possession of the village; but a column of Saxons and a column of French mistook each other in the dark for enemies, and this operation failed.-We then prepared for the battle of Wagram. It appears that the dispositions of the French general and the Austrian general were inverted. The Emperor passed the night in accumulating his forces towards his centre, where he was in person, within cannon shot of Wagram. With this view, the Duke de Rivoli moved upon the left of Aderklau, leaving at Aspern a single division, with orders for it to fall back, in case of necessity, upon the island of Lobau. The duke of Auerstadt received orders to leave unoccupied the village of Grosshoffen that he might approach the centre. The Austrian general, on the contrary weakened his centre, to secure and augment his extremities, which he still farther extended. to make an attack on the village occu pied by the enemy, and which some what straitened the extremity of the centre of the army. He ordered the Duke of Auerstadt to turn the position of Neusiedel, and thence to push on upon Wagram; and he formed the Duke of Ragusa's troops, and those of Gen, Macdonald, in column, to carry Wagram at the moment the Duke of Auers tadt should debouch. On the 6th at day break, the prince -de Ponte Corvo occupied the left, having the duke of Rivoli in a second While these proceedings were taking line. The Viceroy connected him with place, information was received that the centre, where the corps of Count the enemy was making a furious attack Oudinot, that of the Duke of Ragusa, upon the village carried by the Duke of those of the imperial guards, and the Rivoli; that our left was out flanked divisions of cuirassiers, formed seven or by 3,000 toises, that a brisk cannonade eight lines. The Duke of Auerstadt was already heard at Gros-Aspern, and marched from the right to reach the that the space between Gros-Aspera centre. The enemy, on the contrary, and Wagram seemed to be covered put Bellegarde's corps in motion for with an immense line of artillery. There Stadelau. The corps of Collowrath, was no longer any room for doubt.Lichtenstein, and Hiller, connected The enemy had committed an enormous their right with the position of Wagram, fault, and we had only to profit by it. where Prince Hohenzollern was, and The Emperor instantly ordered General with the extremity of the left at Neusie- Macdonald to form the divisions of del, where the corps of Rosenberg de- Broussier and Lamarque in columns of bouched in order also, to out-flank that attack. He ordered the division of Nanof the Duke of Auerstadt. The corps souty to be supported by the horseof Rosenberg, and that of the Duke of guards, and a battery of 60 guns belongAuerstadt, moving in opposite directions, ing to the guards, and 40 of different encountered each other, with the first other corps. Gen. Count Lauriston, rays of the sun, and gave the signal of at the head of his battery of 100 pieces battle. The Emperor instantly repaired of artillery, marched at a trot against to this point, ordered the Duke of the enemy, advanced without firing to Auerstadt to be reinforced by the divi- " within half gun-shot distance, and there sion of the Duke of Padua's cuirassiers, opened a prodigious fire, which silenced and the corps of Rosenberg to be at- that of the enemy, and spread death tacked in flank by a battery of twelve among his ranks. Gen. Macdonald guns, of the division of Count de Nan- then advanced at the pas de charge. souty. In less than three quarters of The general of division Reille, with the an hour, the fine corps of the Duke of brigade of fusileers and sharp-shooters Auerstadt gave a good account of the of the guards, supported Gen. Macdocorps of Rosenberg, defeating it, and nald. The guards made a change of driving it beyond Neusiedel with consi- front, in order to render, this attack inderable loss. In the mean time, a can- fallible. In an instant the enemy's cellnonade commenced along the whole of tre lost a league of ground; his right the line, and the enemy's dispositions became alarmed, and perceiving the were every moment discovering them- dangerous position in which it was plaselves. The whole of his left was secu- ced, rapidly fell back. The Duke of red with artillery.-One might have said, Rivoli, at that moment, attacked it in that the Austrian general was not fight- front. ing for victory, but was looking only to the means of improving it. This disposition of the enemy seemed so absurd, that some spare was apprehended, and the Emperor delayed some time before he ordered those easy dispositions which he had to make to disconcert those of the enemy, and render them fatal to him. He ordered the Duke de Rivoli Whilst the rout of the centre struck consternation into the right of the ene my, and precipitated its movements, the left was attacked and out-flanked by the Duke of Auerstadt, who had carried Neusiedel, and who having gained the elevated plain, was marching upon Wagram. The divisions of Broussier and Gudin covered themselves with glory. It was only then ten o'clock in the morning; and those who had the least penetration saw that the fate of the day was decided, and the victory was ours. At noon, Count Oudinot marched upon Wagram, to assist the attack of the Duke of Auerstadt. He was successful, and carried that important position. After ten o'clock, the enemy fought only to effect his retreat; at twelve this was manifest; it was conducted in disorder; long before dark the enemy was out of sight.-Our left was posted at Jefelsee and Ebersdorff; our centre upon Obersdorff, and the cavalry of our right extended their posts as far as Shonkirchen. On the 7th, at day break, the army was in motion, and marching upon Konenbourg and Wolkersdorf, and had some posts near Nicolsbourg. The enemy, cut off from Hungary and Moravia, had been forced to fall back upon Bohemia. Such is the narrative of the battle of Wagram, a battle decisive and ever me'morable, in which from three to four hundred thousand men, and from twelve to fifteen hundred pieces of cannon, contended for great interests, upon a field of battle, studied, planned, and fortified by the enemy for several months. Ten pair of colours, 40 pieces of cannon, 20,000 prisoners, including between 3 and 400 officers, and a considerable number of generals, colonels, and majors, are the trophies of this victory. The fields of battle are covered with the slain; among whom are the bodies of several generals, and among others, one called Norman, a Frenchman, a traitor to his country, who prostituted his talents against her. All the enemy's wounded have fallen into our hands. Those whom he abandoned at the commencement of the action, were found in the adjacent villages. It may be calculated that the result of this battle will be that of reducing the Austrian army to less than 60,000 men.Our loss has been considerable; it is estimated at 1,500 in killed, and from 3 to 4,000 wounded.—The Duke of Istria, at the moment when he was preparing for an attack with the cavalry, had his horse shot dead by a cannon ball, which fell upon his saddle, and slightly grazed his thigh.-The general of division, Lasalle, was killed by a musket ball. He was an officer of the greatest merit, and one of our best light cavalry "generals.-The Bavarian Gen. Wrede, and Generals Seras, Grenier, Vignolle, Sahuc, Frere, and Defrance, were wounded. Col. Prince Aldobrandini was wounded in the arm by a musket ball; the majors of the guard, Dausmenil and Carbeneau, were also wounded; the Adjutant Commandant, Duprat, was killed; the colonel of the 9th infantry of the line fell on the field of battle.-That regiment has covered itself with glory.-The officers of the staff are preparing a return of our losses. A particular circumstance incident to this grand battle is, that the columns nearest to Vienna were only about 1,200 toises from it. The numerous population of that capital covered the turrets, the steeples, the roofs of the houses, and every elevated situation, to witness this spectacle.-The Emperor of Austria left Wolkersdorf on the 6th, at five in the morning, and ascended a tower, from which he had a view of the field of battle, and where he remained until midnight. He then set off in all haste. -The French head-quarters were transferred to Wolkersdorf, on the morning of the 7th. TWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN. Wolkersdorf, July 9.-The enemy retreated in the utmost disorder. We have collected a part of his baggage. His wounded have fallen into our hands; we have already counted more that 12,000; all the villages are filled with them. In five or six hospitals alone we have found more than 6,000.-The duke de Rivoli, pursuing the enemy by Stokerau, is already arrived at Hollabrunn. The Duke de Ragusa had at first followed on the road to Brunn, which he quitted at Wolkersdorf, in order to take that of Znaim. At nine o'clock this morning he met at Laa a rear-guard, which he routed: he took 900 of them prisoners. He will be to morrow at Znaim.-The Duke of Auerstadt is arrived to-day at Nicolsbourg.-The Emperor of Austria, Prince Anthony, with a suite of about 200 chariots, coaches, and other carriages, slept on the 6th at Erensbrunn, the 7th at Hollabrunn, the 8th at Znaim, whence they set out at nine of the morning. According to the relation of the country people who conducted them, their dejection was extreme. One of the Princes de Rohan was found wounded on the field of battle. Lieut. Field-Marshal Wuraskowics is among the prisoners.-The artillery of the guard covered itself with glory. Major Aboville, who commanded, was wounded. The Emperor has made him general of brigade. The chief of a squadron of artillery, Granner, has lost an arm. These intrepid artillerymen displayed all the power of this terrible weapon.-The horse chasseurs of the guard charged, and drove back on the day of the battle of Wagram, three squares of infantry. They took four pieces of cannon. The light-horse Poles of the guard charged a regiment of pikemen. They took the Prince of Auersperg prisoner, and captured two pieces of cannon.The Saxon Hussars d'Albert charged the cuirassiers d'Albert, and took their colours. It was a very singular thing to see two regiments belonging to the same colonel fighting one against the other.-It appears that the enemy is abandoning Moravia and Hungary, and is retiring into Bohemia.-The roads are covered with the men belonging to the landwehr, and the levée en massé, who are returning to their houses.-The losses which desertion is adding, to those the enemy has sustained in killed, wounded, and prisoners, are concurring to annihilate his army.-The numerous letters which have been intercepted are a striking picture of the discontent of the hostile army, and the disorder which reigns in it. Now that the Austrian monarchy is without hope, it would evince being ill acquainted with the character of those who govern it, not to expect that they will humiliate themselves as they did after the battle of Austerlitz. At that epoch, they were, as now, without hope, and they exhausted all their protestations and oaths. During the day of the 6th, the enemy sent a few hundred men to the right of the Danube to make observations. They re-imbarked after having lost a few men killed or taken prisoners.-The heat was excessive on these days. The thermometer was almost constantly at 26 degrees.-There are great quantities of wine. In one village 3,000,000 pints were found. It has happily no bad quality. Twelve of the most considerable villages in the beautiful plain of Vienna, such as are seen in the neighbourhood of a great capital, have been burnt during the battle. The just hatred of the nation is loud against the guilty men who have drawn upon it all these calamities. The general of brigade, Laroche, en tered Nuremberg on the 28th of June with a corps of cavalry, and proceeded towards Bayreuth. He met the enemy at Besentheim, charged him with the first provisional regiment of dragoons, and cut in pieces all who opposed him, and took two pieces of cannon. TWENTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN. On the 10th the Duke of Rivoli beat the enemy's rear-guard before Hollabrun.-At noon on the same day, the Duke of Ragusa, who had arrived ont the heights of Znaim, saw the enemy's baggage and artillery filing off towards Bohemia. Gen. Bellegarde wrote to him that Prince John of Lichtenstein would repair to the Emperor with a mission from his master, for the purpose of treating for peace; and in cousequence desired a suspension of arms. The Duke of Ragusa replied, that it was not in his power to accede to such a proposition; but that he would acquaint the Emperor with it. Meanwhile he attacked the enemy, took from him an excellent position, made some prisoners, and took two colours.-On the morning of the same day, the Duke of Auerstadt had passed the Taya opposite Nicols bourg, and general Grouchy had beaten Prince Rosenberg's rear, taking 450 men of Prince Charles's regiment.-At noon on the 11th instant, the Emperor arrived opposite Znaim. The battle had begun. The Duke of Ragusa had attacked the town; and the Duke of Rivoli had taken the bridge, and had occupied the tobacco manufactory. In the different engagements this day, we had taken 3,000 men, two colours, and three pieces of cannon. The general of brigade, Bruyeres, an officer of very great promise, has been wounded. The general of brigade, Guiton, made a fine charge with the 10th cuirassiers. The Emperor, informed that Prince John of Lichtenstein, who had been sent to him, was arrived within our posts, ordered the fire to cease. The annexed armistice was signed at midnight, at the Prince of Neufchatel's. The Prince of Lichtenstein was presented to the Emperor in his tent, at two o'clock in the morning. Suspension of Arms between his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. Art. 1. There shall be a suspension of arms between the armies of his Ma'jesty the Emperor of the French, King |