[391] Clausewitz, ch. 32, pp. 73 et seq.
[392] This includes the 6th Corps.
[393] Charras makes the Prussian army about 87,000 strong.
[394] Unless we include the IIId Corps among the Prussian reserves, the French superiority in reserves was very large; and Blücher, as Clausewitz goes on to state, did not have the IIId Corps at his disposal.
[395] Davout, p. 547.
[396] Cf. Jomini, p. 221.
[397] Jomini, p. 226, defends Reille’s course. We shall discuss this question in the Notes to this chapter.
[398] Cf. Jomini, pp. 221, 226.
[399] La Tour d’Auvergne, pp. 91, 92, 145; Muquardt, pp. 145, 146, 149, n. Charras, though discussing Ney’s conduct at considerable length (vol. 2, pp. 236 et seq.), does not touch upon this part of it.
[400] Kellermann, Charras says, vol. 1, p. 188, had at 10.30 A.M. passed Gosselies. His two divisions were, therefore, long before 2 P.M., at Frasnes, and Liberchies.