THE EUROPEAN WAR.
NINETEEN DAYS' RAPID WORK IN THE
EUROPEAN WAR
A Parisian Journal gives a tabular view of the events which took place in the war from 14th June until the decisive battle of Sadowa, on 3rd July. No fewer than sixteen or eighteen engagements took place within that time, which shows the great rapidity of action that modern military appliances can now achieve. The war, if it be stopped now, is the shortest that modern times have seen. The following is the table :—
June 14. —Federal execution decreed by the Grer manic Diet.
June 10. —Entry of the Prussians into Leipsic, Giessen, Cassel. Occupation of Lobau.
June 17. —Entry of the Prussian General Vogel into the Hanoverian capital.
June 18.—Occupation of Marienthal, Ostritz, and Laubau, in Bohemia, by two Prussian regiments, and occupation of Bernstadt by Prussian cavalry. Occupation of Dresden by the Prussians. June 19. —Evacuation of Fort Wilhelm by the Hanoverian troops. Prince William of Hanau made prisoner. Cavalry encounter between the Austrians and Prussians upon the Rumburg road. June 22.—Nixdorff occupied by 7,000 Prussians. June 23. — Occupation of Rum burg by the Prussians.
June 24.—Armstice between the Hanoverian and Prussian troops.
Juno 25.—Action near Jungbungzlau between the Austrians and the Prussians. The Prussian troops occupied Eeichenberg, Trautenau, and Aicha (Bohemia).
June 26.—Engagement near Turnau. June 27. —The army of the Crown Prince of Prussia fought the battle of Nachod. Engagement at Oswiecim. Fight between the Prussians and Hanoverians near Langensalza. General Steinmetz throws back the Austrian corps d'armee (Ramming) upon Josephstadt. Engagement of the same corps with the 6th and Blh Austrian corps under the Archduke Leopold.
June 28.—Action near Trautenau. The troops of Prince Frederick Charle3 engaged near Munchengratz.
June 29. —The Hanoverian armysurrenderedatdiscretion. Capture of Gifschin by the Prussian army. June 30.—Action at Kort, near Turnuu, and at Chwalkowitz, between Kalitz and Konigshof. An Austrian army corps under General Clani-Gallas compelled to retire upon Xoniggratz. July I.—Action at Gitschin.
July 2. —Arrival of King William at Gitsehin. Junction of the Crown Prince's army with that of Prince Frederick Chaises.
July 3.—The battle of Sadowa,
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Colonist, Volume IX, Issue 939, 25 September 1866, Page 3
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351THE EUROPEAN WAR. Colonist, Volume IX, Issue 939, 25 September 1866, Page 3
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