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Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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g the Nute, was directed to turn towardGrossbeeren, in order thus to render the position of the Prussians atThyrow untenable, and to clear the way for OufUnot. Arrived atthe northern edge of the great forests, Oudinot would then combinehis three corps for an assault upon the city. The circumstance, how-ever, that the commander-in-chief, instead of being in the centre ofliis troops, was with the extreme left wing, was largely responsiblefor the defective execution of these arrangements. Re^niier allowedhimself to be thwarted to such extent by the intrenchments atWendisch-Wilmersdorf, which were unfinished and held by only sixcompanies, that his first troops, the division of Durutte and theSaxon di-vision of von Sahr, did not reach Wietstock till midday.After a fierce conflict the brigade of Thlimen was compelled to aban-don the village ; but on the arrival of re-enforcements it defendedthe Thyrow dam, until compelled by the loss of Kerzentlorf to beat 280 TUE WAB OF LIBERATION OF ISIS.
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1 IC. v. .MaibiL- suuue of General Bülow von Dennewitz. By Christian Kaucli. (Berlin.) THE BA TTLE OF QROSSBEKHEN. 281 a retreat tluough the forest to Grossbeereii. Thereupon Oudinot,advancing from Trebbin, also crossed the dam. Without seriouseffort Bertrand had effected a passage at Jiihnsdorf. The mostdifficult part was, therefore, accomplished. Behind him Oudinothad tlie broad, swampy and waste tracts of the Nute, and thefortified position south of Berlin was forced. He now encampedfifteen miles from the city, and had still to cross only the broad andin part swampy Kiefern woods, in order to reach the dry and optuplain on the other side. This gorge in the wood could, however, l)epassed only by the army moving in separate divisions. The danger was urgent, the city full of apprehension, the Prus-sian generals beside themselves at the action of the crown-prince,who now, for the first time, announced his determination to givebattle, but in case Napoleon himself was advancing against

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