NAPOLÉON. 1813. 31st Bulletin de LA GRANDE ARMÉE. Official A - Lot 366

NAPOLÉON. 1813. 31st Bulletin de LA GRANDE ARMÉE. Official Army news, as of September 26 (1813), addressed to H.M. the Queen Regent Empress. Folder (45 x 34 cm). Published by the Préfecture de la Seine-et-Marne, MELUN, from the Lefèvre-Compigny printing house: "On the 21st, the Emperor (Napoleon) came to sleep in Dresden, and on the 22nd, he went to Hartau: he immediately had the Eleventh Corps, commanded by the Duke of Taranto, the Fifth Corps, commanded by General Lauriston, and the Third Corps, commanded by General Souham, move beyond the Bischofswerda forest. The Duke of Bellune occupied the Freyberg position... The Duke of Ragusa, with the Sixth Corps and General Latour-Maubourg's cavalry, was beyond Grossenhayn. He had pushed the enemy back to the right bank beyond Torgau, to facilitate the passage of a convoy of twenty thousand quintals of flour up the Elbe on boats, which had arrived at Dresden. The Duke of Padua is in Leipsick; the Prince of Moskwa between Wittenberg and Torgau. General Count Lefebvre-Desnouettes was, with four thousand horses, following the defector Thielmann..."