A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, During the Year 1812 (1815) - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: troops had been necessarily spread to defend them; (as it was not to be divined at what part the enemy would first oppose himself) a complete obedience to this command must take time to accomplish. When the Emperor issued this order, the Russian army occupied the following1 places: Head-quarters were at Wilna, where were stationed a part of the Imperial guards. A reserve of that corps was at Swantziany. The whole was commanded by Barclay de Tolly, in chief. The right of the first division, consisting of thirty thousand men, stretching from Chawli to Telch and Wilkomir, was commanded by Count Vigten- stein. The second division, consisting of twenty-fivp thousand men, which had previously occupied Kov- na, but on the approach of the enemy to the banks of the Niemen, had fallen back to Schervinty, between Wilkomir and Wilna, was under General Baggavout. The third and fourth divisions of Generals Shou- valoff and Toutchkoff, each amounting to twenty- six .thousand men, occupied Novtroky, and from thence to Lida. These divisions were called the First Army. A part of General Dochtorroff's (or the fifth division amounting to twenty thousand men), under Count Palhen, occupied Grodno. Dochtorroff had, some short time before, been detached from the Se cond Army, which consisted of sixty thousand men.and was commanded by Prince Bragation, then stationed at Bailistock and Wilkowiski, together with a large body of Cossacs under the Hetman Platoff. A corps of observation, amounting to twenty-five thousand raen, under the command of General Tor. mozoff, was left at Loutzk. And Generals Essen and Steingel, commanded in and near Riga, a body of twenty thousand. In. the event of a rupture, the plan of the campaign, determined on by the Emperor Alexander and his military counci...