LEFEBVRE-DESNOUETTES (Charles). 2 signed... - Lot 31 - Osenat

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LEFEBVRE-DESNOUETTES (Charles). 2 signed... - Lot 31 - Osenat
LEFEBVRE-DESNOUETTES (Charles). 2 signed autographed letters. 1813. - Freyburg, south-east of Leipzig, October 3, 1813" at 7 am. In the morning": "Monsignor, I pushed parties to Lauchtedt[now Bad-Lauchstädt] & Schraplau[places east of Leipzig], it follows that the army of the Prince of Sweden [ John Baptist Bernadotte], according to the reports I receive, did not make the great movement I mentioned in my previous one, on the left bank of the Elbe. The enemy has very few people in Halle[northeast of Leipzig]. Czernicheff's first plan was to walk on Cassel, but I am assured that he is now between Nordhausen and Bernburg[this is Russian General Alexander Ivanovich Chernychev]. Everyone in the country says that his body is 15 thousand men, but I am right to believe that this calculation is very exaggerated. The Earl of Woranzow had only a corps of 4 or 5 thousand men[Russian General Mikhail Semionovich Vorontsov], infantry & cavalry, between Halle & Bernburg to support Czernicheff's corps. The road so far has always been clear. I am waiting today for news from the Duke of Castiglione[Marshal Pierre Augereau] & I believe that the column of General[Alexander] Dalton will arrive today in Nauembourg[Naumburg]. If Your Excellency wants to give me infantry troops that I believe are necessary to march against Czernicheff, I could leave on the Saale the Lorge Division[of General Jean-Thomas-Guillaume Lorge], but if you do not agree with this expedition, I can send this division to Leipzig.... " (1 p. 1/2 in-folio). - Kösen[now Bad-Kösen, south-east of Naumburg, 4 October 1813: "Monsignor,... I never stay in the same position for two days, but I am always towards the outlets of the Saale & Unstruth: today the troops under my command occupy the parade of Kösen, Camburg[now Dornburg-Camburg], Freyburg, Laucha[now Laucha-an-der-Unstrut], Neibra[Nebra], Weissenfels. Czernicheff walked on Cassel, it was the 28th & 29th of last month under the walls of thi
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