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MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
Twenty fourth Bulletin . .
Vienna, June 30.
General Brousier had left two
battalions of the 84th regiment of
the line in .lie town of Gra'Z, and
proceedi to Vildou, to join the
armv of Dalmatia.
On the 2t»'h of June, general
Gfiildy appealed before Gruiz with
10,000 men, composed, it is true,
ol Groats anti frontier region otw.
The 14th was cantoned in one of
the suburbs of the town, repelled
all attacks of the enemv, routed
him every where, took 5000 men
prisoners, and two standards, and
maintained himself j n his position
14 hours, giving time to general
Brousier to come to his assistance.
The coufliet of one wilh two, cov.
eredthe 84th, and its col. Gambe,
with honor. The standards were
presented to his majesty at the pa
rade. We have to regret, that 2<J
of these brave fellows were kilied,
and 92 wounded.
On the 30th the duke of Aikts
tadt attacked one of the islands of
the Danube, a small distance from
the right bank opposite Presburg,
where the enemy had some troop*,.
General Gudin directed this opera
tion with skill ; it whs executed by
colonel Decouz, and the 20th regi
ment of infantry of the line, which
! that officer commands. At two o’-
clock of that morning, this regi
ment, partly in boats and partly
swimming, crossed a very narrow
arm of the Danube, seized the is.
land, routed 1500 men who were
upon it, and made 200 prisoners,
among whom were the colonel and
several officers of the regiment St.
Julian, and took three pieces of
cannon, which the enemy had lan
ded for ihe defence of the island,
At length there exists no longer
any Danube, as far as concerns ilie
French army. General count Ber
trand lias raised works which ex
cite astonishment, and inspire ad
miration.
Over a breadth of 500 fathoms,
over a very rapid river, lie lias in
a fortnight raised a bridge formed
of 40 arches, on which three carri
agc6 can pass abreast ; he lias built
a second bridge upon piles, eight
foet broad - f aud tins is for infantry
alone. Next to these two briogts
is a bridge of bout 9 ; we can, there
fore pass the Danube in three ouL
timns. These three bridges are
secured against all assaults, and u
gailist the effects or tire-ships and
incendiary machines by sioccadoc*
raised on piles. When these im -
mense works are contemplated they
might be thought to be Luc labor
of many years , they were, howe
ver, produced in hlteen or twenty
days. These works are defended
by leies-de pent, each of looota
thorns iu extent formed of redoubts,
surrounded b\ pallisades, frizes, 6t
ditches tilled with water. Tire is
land of Labau is a strong post ; a
contains magazines of provisions,
200 pieces of heavy camion and
2o mortars or howitzers. Oppo
site Essinig, on me felt arm of the 1
Danube, is a bridge winch the
duke ot Kivoli, (IVJasseua) has tix. i
cd there, it is coveted by aitle
de-pont, winch had been ra;»ed
thereat the tune of the first pas.
sage ot the riyer.
General Lcgtand occupies the
woods m the front of the teie-de „
ponU The hostile army is in order
ot battle, covered with redoubts ;
the left is at Enzersdurf, the rigut i
at Great Aspern ■, a few discharges I
of mubquetry from the advanced
posts have takeu place.
Now, the passage of the Danube
is secured, and that our bridges are
sheltered liom every attempt, the
late ot the Austrian mon«iicny will
be decided in a single battle.
1 he waters of the Danube were,
on the fust of July, tour teet auove
die lowest, and thirteen leet below .
the highest point. Ibe rapidity ol 1
the liver at tins part it, when the j
waters are fngn, from seven to 12 j
‘Lctj when luc w*ocis are model- j
“ HOLD THL iMlff'.Oß UP TO NATURE.” ShakCbpCdre.
ate, four feet six inches each se
cond, and mo r e -nrong than at nnv
other point. In Hungary it dimin
ishes a a rear de.d , and at she place
where the Trajan raised a bridge,
: T is almost insensible. The Dan**
j übe is there 450 fathoms broad ;
; here it is onlv four hundred. The •
br »< ;e of Trajan was of stone, the |
ivoik of several years. C’cesar’s
j bridge over the Rhine, was raised, !
it is true, in eight days, but no (
loaded carriages could pass over it. j
The works on the Danube are :
the most beautiful military works j
eve*- formed,
Prince Gazarin, aid_de-cainp j
general of the emperor of Russia, !
arrived at. Schoetfbrtirih, at four in
the morning, the day before ves. !
terday, at the moment the i
ror was mounting on horseback
He set out from Petersburg on the
Stbofjune. He Ins brought in
telligence of tile march of the Kus*
siau army in Gallicia.
1
Iwenty-fijih, Bulletin.
WolkersdorfJune 8.
The works raist-d by general j
count Bertrand, and the corps he
commands, had, since the brgin
ning of the month entirely subdu
ed the Danube. His majesty in- j
stantly resolved*lo collect his for.
ces in the island of Lobau, open
upon the Austrian army, and bnng
on a general engagement. It was
not because the position of the
French army was not a very fine
one at Vienna. Master of the
whole right bank of the Danube,
having in his power Austria, and
a considerable portion of Hunga
ry, he enjoyed tire greatest plenty.
If some difficulties had been expe
rienced in providing eustenacce
for the people of Vienna, this arose
from an ill-organized adminstra'
tion, from embarrassments which
were every day diminishing, and
from difficulties which were natu
rally produced by 'he situation in
which the country was placed, j„
a land in which the trade in corn
18 an exclusive privilege ol the
government. But how could the
troops continue to he separated
from the hostile army by a canal
of three or four hundred toises in
breadth when the means ol pas
sing over had beeu prepared and
secured ? This would have given
credibility to the impostures,
which the enemy had scattered,
with so great profusion, through
out his own and neighboring conn
trea j this would have cast a doubt
over the occurrences at Esling ;
would iiave finally authorised the
supposition of their being in fact,
! a substantial equably between ar
i mies so different : of which one
was animated and in some measure
reinforced by multiplied success
and victories, while die other was
dispirited by the most striking re
verses.
All the intelligence collected con
cerning the Austrian army shewed
; that it vv a s considerable ; that it
| had been recruited by numerous
bodies of reserve, by the levies
i from Moravia and Hungary, aud
by all the Landwehrsof the provm
! ces ; that its cavalry had been re
monuted by requisitions m all the
circles, and its draugh's of artillery
tripled by immense levies of hoi
ses and carriages, in Moravia, Hun
gary, and Bohemia. To add new
chances in their favor, the Austri
an generals had raised military
j works, ol which the right was pro
tected by Gros-Aspern, and the left
!by KnzersJorf. The villages of (
j Aspern, Esaliug, and Eu/ersdorf, )
i ami the intervals between them
1 were covered by redoubts, sur
rounded by pilhsadeS and frizes,
and defended by more than 150
pieces of battering cannon, taken
from the fortresses ol Bohemia and
Moravia.
it was inconceivable bow theem
peror, with his experience in war,
could think of attacking works so
powerfully defended, backed by an
j a r tnv estimated at 200,000 men, as
well troops of ihe line as uiilitia
j -md new raised levies, and who
were supported by 800 or 900 pie
ces of field artilleiy. It appeared
1 more simple to throw some fresh
bridges over the Danube, a few
; leagues lower down, and thus ren
j der useless the field of battle pre
pared by the enemy, Butin this
; latter case it was not thought prac
i ti< able to avert ihe incnnvenituces
! which had already nearly proved
! fatal to the army, and to succeed
I in the course of two or three days,
lin protecting ihese new bridges
| Irmu (he machines ol'ihe enemy,
i On the oiher side the emperor
was tranquil. W orks were raised
: upon works in the Island of Lo
ban : aud several bridges on piles,
and Rever&l rows of stockadocs,
were fixed at the same place.
this situation of ihe French ar_
my, placed between tnese two
great difficulties, h-*d not escaped
the enemy. He was aware that
bis army, too numerous and un
wieldy, would be exposed to cer
tain destruction if he acted on the
, offensive ; but at the same time,
he believed that it was impossible
to dislodge him, from tlie cemral
position in which he covered 80.
hernia, Moravia, and a part of
Hungary, It is ture that this pos
ition did uot cover Vienna, and
that the French were in posses
sion of his capital. But this pos
session was in a certain degree dis
puted since the Austrians remain
ed masters of one bank of the Dan
ube, and prevented the arrival of
the articles most indispensiblc to
the subsistence of so great a city.
These were the reasons of hope
and lear, and the subject of con
versation in the two armies.
On the Ist of July, at four o’-
clock iti the morning, the emperor
removed his head quarters to the
inland Lobau, which had been al.
ready 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 Ensersdorf, had
been furnished with ten mortars
und twenty 18 pounders- Anoth
er island called Ltand Kspnguc,
had been supplied with six pieces
of battering cannon (12 pounders
and four mortars. Between these
two islands, batteries had been
raised, equal in force to that ol the
island. Montebello, and in like
manner bearing upon Enzersdorf.
These 62 pieces oi battering artil.
lery had the same object, and were
m two hours to destroy the little
town ot Enzersdorf, drive away
the enemy, fct demolish the works.
On the right, the Island of Alex
ander with four mortals, two ten
pounders, and twelve six-pounderß
(battering cannon) were to bear
upon the plain, and piotect the op.
orations ol the bridges.
On the 2d the , aid-de
camp of the duke de Rivoli, pas
sed over to the Mill Island with
500 Voltiguers, auu took, posses
sion of ir.
Tliis island was furnished with
cannon. It was joined to the con.
tinerit, on the leltiide, by a small
bridge. In the front a little lleche
was raised, and this redoubt was
called Petit-
In the evening the redoubts cl
j Essling appeared to be jealous ol
these woiks i not doubting that
they were a first battery, tormed
to act against themselves, they tir
ed upon them with great activity.
This was precisely the intention
lin having seized this island- The
j attention of the onemy was to be
drawn to this point, iu order to
conceal from him the operations
| really proposed.
Bamage across the arm of the Da•
tiuoe to ihe island Lobau,
On the 4ih, at leu m the eveu.
ing general Oudinot caused isoo
Vuiugeur* to be embarked on the
great arm ol me Dauube, com
inauded by geucral Gouroux.—
Colonel li*hUC) wild leu guu-bo«*t.-
' [No. 5 1 *]
A— ~ _•’
MONDAY, October 2, 1809.
1 cnnveved them, and disembarked
1 , them beyond the little arm of the
1 island Lobau in the Danube
1 he h jitteries of the were
«o( n s fenced, and he was driven
; fiom the woods t« the village of
MuhVu'en.
At elevt n in the morning the bat
« s raised against F.nzendorf,
received orders to begin the firing.
The howitzer* 9et this on fortunate
little town on fire, and in less than
half an hour the enemy’s batteries
had ce to operate.
The chief of battalion, Dessalee,
director of the bridges, and ,
engineer of the marine, had pre~
pared in the island Alexander, a
bridge of 80 tuises, of a single
piece, and five great ferry-boats.
Colonel Sainte Croix, aid-dc
oamp of the duke Rivoli, embark
ed in barges with 2500 men, and
/ landed on the left bank.
The bridge of a single piece,
the first of the kind which has hu
therto been made, was fixed in
less than five minutes, and the in
fantry passed over it with great ra
pidity.
Captain Bazelle fixed abridge of
boats in an hour and a half.
Tapraio Payerimeffe formed a
bridge of rafts in two hours.
Thus at 2 o’clock of the mor
ning, the army had four bridge*
and had debouched on the left
1500 toifes below Enzcrfdorf,
protected by the batteries, & the
right upon Vitiau. The corps
of the duke de Rivoli formed
the left; that of count OudD
not the centre ; and that of the
duke of Auerlladt, the right ;
the corps of the prince de Ponte
Corvo, the viceroy, 6c the duke
of Raguia, the guard : and the
curalliers formed the second line
and ihe bodies reserve. Utter
darkness, a violent (toim, and
ram, which fell in torrents,
rendered this night as fright,
ful as it was propitious to the
French army, and was about
to be glorious to it.
On the sth, at day break,
every one pieceived what had
been the project of the emperor,
who was then, with his whole
army arranged in order of bat*
tie, at the extremity of the ene.
ray’s left, having turned all his
entrenched camps, having ren*
dered his works ulelels, and
thus obliging the Auftriana to
abandon their positions, and
come and offer him battle on
the spot that was convenient to
hiu.. The great problem was
thus resolved 6c without palling
the Danube on other points—
without lecciving any protec
tion from the works he had rai
led, he forced the enemy to
fight three quarters of a league
from hu redoubts. From that
moment the greatest and hap
prelt relult were preiaged.
At eight in the morning the
batteries which had played upon
En zerldorf had produced such
an effect, that the enemy was
obliged to let that town be occu
pied by no more than four bat
talions. The dyke of Rivoli
dispatched his firlt aid de.camp,
Sainte Croix, againlt it who
did not meet with a great relif
tance, and took priioners all
who remained in it.
Count Oudinot surrounded
the cattle Salchengang, which
the enemy had fortified,' forced
900 men who defended it to
capitulate, and took 12 pieces of
cannon.
The enemy then caused the
whole army to (pread itfelf a*
long the im menle plain of J&u.
zei idoti.