Excerpt from Narrative of All the Principal Occurrences Which Took Place During the Last Two Years of the Reign of Buonaparte: Giving a View of Every Transaction of Importance, From the Retreat of the French From Moscow Till the Entrance of the Allies Into Paris, Including Circumstantial Details of the Battle of Leipsic, &C
The campai are well known to the world. People, stil obedient to the insatiable Tyrant who governed them, permitted him once more to exact from them an enor mous blood tribute, which enabled him again to take the field with an army superior in numbers to that of the now united Russians and Pmssians. After a few partial rencounters, a’ general and most sanguinary battle took place betwixt the contending armies. It was fought on the 2d of May, 181 3, at Lutzen, a town of Upper Saxony, and each side claimed the victory. The Allies remained masters of the field, but were subsequently obliged to retire to the Elbe. Bonaparte, being much weakened by his loss in this and three other bat tles, which took lace on the 19th, 2otb, and 21st of the same month, in e neighbourhood of Bautzen, contrived to.
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