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Title: Joachim Murat, marshal of France and king of Naples
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1767-1815 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: New York, Brentanos
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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archingacross the upper Neckar valley, and Marmont and Bema-dotte were converging on Wiirzburg, and the Bavarianshad been called up from Bamberg to join the French leftcolumn. Seven army corps were executing a great con-verging movement that would bring the heads of theircolumns, within a week, to the crossings of the Danubebelow Ulm, cutting off Mack from his communicationsand supports, and bringing more than twofold odds againsthim. As he himself afterwards said, He was in a dream.Suddenly on 5 October he was roused from his dreamsby rumours that the country to the north-east of Ulmwas full of huge columns of French troops, pressing forwardtowards the Danube by forced marches, and that Napoleonwith the Imperial Guard had passed through Stuttgart.He drew in his troops from the line of the river Iller, andconcentrated them about Ulm. Murat having swept the Austrian advanced cavalryposts back from the eastern outlets of the Black Foresthad, by Napoleons orders, pushed forward Bourciers
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I i5 CAMPAIGN OF ULM AND AUSTERLITZ 121 battalions of dismounted dragoons with ten guns and afew mounted men directly towards Ulm, and concentratingall the rest of his force to the left, marched by Pforzheimto join the French right, which was under the Emperorsdirect command. The cuirassier division of DHautpoul was detached toact with the Imperial Guard and the corps of Lannesunder Napoleon; Murat with the rest of the cavalry was tocover the flank-march to the Danube. Ne3/s 6th corps,20,000 strong, was placed temporarily under his orders.It was to take post on the Danube on the extreme rightof the army as it passed the river, and form as it were apivot round which the other corps swung to the east ofUlm. To Murat the Emperor wrote : * You must flankall my march, which is a delicate operation, an obliqueadvance to the Danube. If the enemy means to take theoffensive, I must be warned in time to adopt a decisionwithout being forced to take the one that will suit hisviews. Murat had comp

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