Davout
opens the campaign by ordering two corps to attack Amstadt, which is the
Russian left flank. His other two corps
ordered to pin the Russian corps in the centre and north.
Wittgenstein
has not anticipated this attack. There
is only one corps deployed to hold the approach to Amstadt. Fortunately a second corps is on orders to
“march to the sound of the guns”, and
arrives in time to join the battle.
Because
of the terrain one French corps is delayed, and then blocked by the reinforcing
Russian corps. Neither take any real
part in the battle.
The
battle is a victory for the French, who lose 800 casualties to 4200 Russians.
3rd
Russian corps bears the brunt of the fighting, and at night fall has broken and
is in rout .
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