August <font color="green"><b>20</b></font id="green"> old style, <font color="green"><b>September 3</b></font id="green"> new style. I may be wrong for a couple of days. Writing by the memory[:I] The rear guard under gen Konovtitzin was hardly pressednear the town of Gzhatsk (the one we have a what-if fight at). He a asked general-mayor Kreitz if the later agrees to cover the retreat even if all of his detachment (Siberian, Irkoutsk and Orenbourg dragoons and one cossacks regimens, plus two horse guns) will be killed. They covered the retreat, but were cut off the river crossing. Then Kreitz ordered to swim across the river Gzhat' which was made at once. Even both guns were saved - they were towed across the river bed! On the other bank when people had some rest a strong detachment of Bavarian cavalry showed in sight from 13 to 15 squadrons depending on the source. It was attacked with vigour. Up to 500 men were taken prisoners. Sometimes they also metion a standart, but I'm not sure. The story is according to Kreitz himself and Bogdanovitch, who used Kreitz' memoirs as one of the sources. All the others just rewrite it with different alternations. So the question is who were these bavarians and what was their loss in the action according to french/german sources? Anyone heard of this action?
Date corrected. I'm sorry![:I]
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General-Mayor Anton Valeryevich Kosyanenko
Commander of the Second Army of the West </b></center>