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Title: The American annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: D. Appleton and Company
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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une 26th, ad-vanced from Liebau (Silesia) to Goldenuls(Bohemia). On the 27th, Bonin advanced asfar as Trautenau, but had to fall back beforethe larger Austrian force under General vonGablenz. The latter was then ordered to ar-rest the advance of the Prussian guard-corps,which (on June 26th) had entered into Bohemiafrom Braunau. He encountered these troopson the 28th, at Burgersdorf and Soor, and wascompelled by them to abandon Trautenau, andto retreat to Kuniginhof. The Prussians lostabout 1,000 men, while the Austrians had from4,000 to 5,000 killed and wounded, and lostsome 5,000 prisoners and ten pieces of ord-nance. The total loss suffered up to this timeby the 8th, 4th, and 10th A..-strian army corps,was estimated at 15,000 men and twenty-fourpieces of ordnance. On the 29th the Prussianguard-corps occupied, after some fighting, thetown of Kuniginhof, on the Elbe, when, again,400 Austrians were captured. On the sameday, and on the 30th, the 5th Prussian army GERMAN-ITALIAN WAR. 365
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366 GERMAN-ITALIAN WAR. corps (Steinmetz), reSnforced by a part of the6th, advanced, and, after successful skirmishesat Schweinschadel, Salney, and near Jaroofierz,compelled the Austrians to fall back upon thelatter town and Josephstadt, where, on the 30thof June, the 2d, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th armycorps were concentrated. The Prussians werenow enabled to establish a connection with thearmy of Prince Frederick Charles, and thus alltheir armies were united, presenting, on the 1stof July, a front extending from Smidar toYaromierz, a distance of not more than sixGerman miles. King William, on the 30th ofJune, had arrived at Reichenberg, to assumethe chief command of the combined armies.As it was supposed in the Prussian head-quarters that Benedek intended to act on thedefensive, the king desired to give to the troopsseveral days of rest. The movements of Gen-eral Benedek, however, who, on the 2d of July,threw the bulk of his army across the Elbe,taking the Bistritz River as his front, s

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