The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . f open W (Fig. 15, A A A ABB), with the chateauof Goumont at the summit of the salient angle, covered by aplantation of wood and enclosures, occupied by six or eightbattalions; so that the enemy could not enfilade, from behindthat plantation, either of the faces of the centre, nor approachon either of the causeways which passed through the centre,without presenting his flank. Beside
The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . f open W (Fig. 15, A A A ABB), with the chateauof Goumont at the summit of the salient angle, covered by aplantation of wood and enclosures, occupied by six or eightbattalions; so that the enemy could not enfilade, from behindthat plantation, either of the faces of the centre, nor approachon either of the causeways which passed through the centre,without presenting his flank. Besides this point. La HayeSainte, a stone farm, close to the Chausss of Charleroy, andfarther on the left the farhi of Papelotte and chateau of Fri-chermont, were occupied. The w^hole front offered a gentleslope towards the enemy, and in the rear the cavalry w^asdistributed in brigades, each in two lines, covered by therising ground; and the artillery, all the field-pieces of w^hichwere nine-pounders or twelves, formed a line of almost con-tiguous batteries along the front, interspersed with howitzersand rockets. By the returns found after the battle it appears that the MILITARY MAXIMS AND WARLIKE OPERATIONS. 73. 10 74 THE ARMY AND NAVY. enemy had debouched from Charleroy with 122,000 men, ex-clusive of the reinforcements that joined after the i5th ofJune : of these he produced on the field of battle about 80,000men, formed in concentrated masses on both sides of theChausse of Charleroy, and gradually advancing the rightparallel to the British left (C C C C); but as he was jealousof the woods on the right, he formed an angle to the rear, andkept his reserves far back. He had made a demonstrationwith a corps of cavalry beyond the British right, towardsHal, where he found the corps of General Colville, and PrinceFrederick of Orange, with two divisions posted at Tubise,Clabbeck, and Braine le Chateau, to cover that avenue toBrussels. Another corps, 42,000 strong, under Grouchy, wasdeta
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