. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Ordered to join Blücher, it found itself, after reach-ing Leipsic, held back by the dilatory movements of the mainarmy. Napoleons rapid advance, and then the loss of two battles,made it necessary to give up entirely the thought of attempting aninsurrection in western Germany; and thus, on the whole, little wasaccomplished. At the end of April, Lützow joined an enterju-ise ofDörnberg for the deliverance of Hamburg. Both threw themselvesupon Vandammes right wing, and delivered battle, on May 12, atthe Göhr
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Ordered to join Blücher, it found itself, after reach-ing Leipsic, held back by the dilatory movements of the mainarmy. Napoleons rapid advance, and then the loss of two battles,made it necessary to give up entirely the thought of attempting aninsurrection in western Germany; and thus, on the whole, little wasaccomplished. At the end of April, Lützow joined an enterju-ise ofDörnberg for the deliverance of Hamburg. Both threw themselvesupon Vandammes right wing, and delivered battle, on May 12, atthe Göhrde, a wood lying between Daneberg and Dalenberg: Ijut thenext day both were compelled, in presence of a superior force, to THE LUTZOW FREE CORPS. •ZOO retiie across the Elbe. More opportunity to annoy the enemy, andinflict loss upon him, was discovered by partisans, who were jDecu-liarly light and active, as especially Bliichers brother-in-law, therestless and shrewd captain of horse, von Colomb, who fought forseven weeks upon the left (^Saxon) baidv of the Elbe, made prisoneis,. Ki(i. 50. — Theodore Körner :is a member of Liitzows corps. From the crayondrawiiif,lit Apiil, 1S13, by Emma Konier. ilrigiual in the Körner Museum, atDresden. intercepted couriers and supph-wagons, captured at Zwickau a ti-ainof twenty-four cannon and twenty-seven vehicles, nearlv made a pris-oner of the Viceroy Eugene when travelling to Italj-, and then estal>lished himself in the forest region at Neustadt upon the Oder. Withgreat daring the Russian Czernicheff, on May 30, captured at Hal-berstadt the Westphalian General von Oehs, together with 1000men, 14 cannon, 60 powder-wagons, and 800 horses, and destroyed 256 TUE WAR OF LIBERATION OF IS 13. tlie army supplies at that place. In like manner, in , GeneralKaisaroff and the Prussian partisans, von Hehvig and von IJlaiiken-buig, were favored in tlieir enterprises. General Biilow meanwhile was not inactive, but after Ney hadabando
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