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I have been laborously translating selected portions of Saski's "Campagne de 1809", and thought I might share a few sections. The following is from GD Deroi's dispatch to Lefebvre, in turn forwarded to Berthier early on April 17th (page 222):
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General Deroi, at 9 o’clock in the morning of April 16, received a demand from the enemy to rebuild [de faire retablir] the bridge at Landshut. On the refusal of the general commanding the 3rd division of the Bavarian corps, the enemy commenced to attack the town. In the suburb Entre-les-Ponts (properly Zwischen-den-Brucken, but probably translated by Lefebvre for the benefit of Napoleon and his staff) where our soldiers found good cover, they engaged in a lively firefight, but at the other bridge called Pont du Suburb where all the ground was clean shaven(sic), skirmishers could not hold their position, and amongst the cannons with which I tried to reply the [enemy] fire was so telling on my gunners, that I had to abandon that plan, allowing the enemy to rebuild the bridge and menace my flank with a strong sortie. On the other hand, noticing a considerable corps which had crossed the Isar on the bridge which they had rebuilt [qu'ils avaient fait retablir] at Moosburg and was advancing by my left towards my rear, and knowing nothing of General Saint-Hilaire, I disengaged and made my retreat to Pfeffenhausen, where the division arrived between 4 and 6 o’clock this morning.

My troops being harassed, under combat from 9:30 until night-fall and then marching all night, I am resting them until 1 this afternoon, when I will retire on Rottenberg and there await the orders of Your Excellency [Lefebvre, le Duc du Danzig].

[signed] Deroi

And this book can be found at:

http://www.archive.org/stream/campagned ... 0/mode/1up

I glanced over it and there are over 100 pages that lead up to the actual combat. Very detailed on the amount of rations consumed by the various portions of the army and the number of troops needed to support the army.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)

Yes, the internet is a gold-mine of useful data. For those willing to dust off the high-school German the Bavarian Stats Library, in conjunction with the universities of Munich and Regensburg (at least) have digitized thousands of 19th century (and earlier!) city plans and topo maps. I found city plans from 1805-1815 for Abensberg, Landshut and Regensburg amongst numerous others. (Who knew that Landshut and Abensberg were walled cities in 1809? Or that the third, northernmost channel of the Danube in Regensburg, between Stadt-am-hof and Steinweg, is an artificial canal and harbour built entirely in the 1970's, and that the bridge there is nearly 300 yards in length?)

Check out
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ortsblaetter-bestellung
and
http://rzblx2.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/blo/karte/karte.php?x=4495379&y=5370043&name=Moosburg+a.d.Isar
and
http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ortsblaetter/suche?ebene=3&gem=877

I also found Volume II of the Austrian archive, Krieg 1809, dealing with the Italian campaign, but neither of Volume I or Volume III.

http://www.archive.org/stream/kriegieachtzehn00kercgoog#page/n8/mode/1up