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Title: A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia : embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Labaume, Eugène, 1783-1849
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: London : Printed for Samuel Leigh
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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especially to observe whether there were anymasked batteries, or ravines unknown to us*. In obedience to my instructions I advanced, anddiscovered that the Russian camp was situated be-hind the river Kologha upon a narrow eminencCjand that its left was very much weakened by theloss of the redoubt which we had taken the even^ing before. In front of the camp and opposite tous was the village of Borodino, an extremelystrong positionf, situated at the confluence of a * The plan, which will be found here, has been engravedafter that which the Viceroy used on the day of battle. t Napoleon said in his bulletin of the battle of the Moskwa, The Viceroy, who formed our left, attacked and took the village of Borodino, which the enemy could not defend.*Prince Kutusoff on the contrary wrote to the Emperor Alex-ander, The position which I have chosen in the village of Bo- rodino, is one of the best that can be found in a flat country.*« It is to be wished that the French would attack us in this k2
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THE MOSKWA. 1^% our staff, who informed me that the Emperorwished for a plan of the ground which we hadoccupied the preceding evening. I transmittedit to prince Eugene, who immediately sent it toNapoleon. The next morning, at day break (6thof September), the Viceroy ordered me to com-plete the plan by inspecting the whole line, andapproaching as near the enemy as I possibly could,that I might the better discover the exact natureof the ground on which they were encamped, andespecially to observe whether there were anymasked batteries, or ravines unknown to us*. In obedience to my instructions I advanced, anddiscovered that the Russian camp was situated be-hind the river Kologha upon a narrow eminence^and that its left was very much weakened by theloss of the redoubt which we had taken the even^ing before. In front of the camp and opposite tous was the village of Borodino, an extremelystrong position-f, situated at the confluence of a * The plan, which will be found here, has been engra

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