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as reserve enabled him to send the 51st to support Friant,
the 61st to follow Morand, and strengthen the union of his
left with St. Hilaire.

Friant, still suffering severely from the guns in the
direction of the Kreegeberg, received orders to1 take Klein
Sausgarten with one battalion of the 33rd. Lochet, with
this battalion, broke his way into the village. He was not at
once supported, and, after half an hour, attacked by infantry
and cavalry, which, passing from the left wing of the Eussian
line beyond Kl. Sausgarten, reached his right flank, he was
forced to withdraw. Outside the village, he and Marulaz
maintained a stationary and sanguinary fight amongst the
stockaded enclosures in which sheep were wont to be folded
at night, to protect them from wolves. The Eussian cavalry
were thus driven off by the 33rd, the 48th, and the 51st. The
enemy's infantry reinforced, continued to gain ground as they
vigorously assaulted the 33rd, the 48th and Marulaz's cavalry.
Lochet was killed here. At last, with the assistance of its
artillery, Friant's division succeeded in again advancing into
Kl. Sausgarten, where he firmly established himself.

Whilst the fight thus progressed on Davout's right,
Morand and St. Hilaire, in front, and to the left of Ser-
pallen, had to sustain very heavy fighting. So great was
the loss in the 13th light infantry, that it had to be
replaced in the fighting line by a battalion of the 17th from
the reserve. The 61st, at this period, took post on Morand's
right. To the left of it the 17th and 30th continued the line
till it joined the right battalion (10th light infantry) of St.
Hilaire. At first, the advance of St. Hilaire prospered.
Firing as they moved, his men compelled the Eussians to yield
before them, abandoning 30 guns, which fell into Morand's
hands. Suddenly, in the midst of their success, the 10th
light infantry, forming the link between the two divisions,
was charged by 20 squadrons under Korfif. This cavalry,
which had been concealed, partly by the inequalities of the
ground, partly by a snowstorm, coming upon the left of the