This is a hasty re-publication of an AAR sent as an e-mail to campaign participants.
The context, for those not in the campaign (and I must bring the overall campaign history up to date here) is that it is March 1807. Most of the action is in Lusatia and Silesia, with French columns also penetrating deep into Poland. Davout's III Corps has marched from Berlin to take the city of Küstrin on the Oder to support an advance along the Baltic coast. He knew there were some Prussian forces lurking to the north, but was a little surprised when they offered battle.
The French found themselves in a tricky position, with Davout and his strongest division in the town (having marched in the previous evening), but the other two divisions and the artillery still cooking breakfast on the other side of the river when the dawn revealed Prussians approaching from the north, emerging from the concealing woods a mile away, and more apparently coming from the north-east. Orders were immediately sent to Morand to get his division across the Oder, which he did.
| Küstrin from the east at dawn. Both gates are guarded, with a reserve behind able to support either. Morand's division is approaching the bridge through the "Long suburb" on the west bank of the Oder. The "Short Suburb", east of the town, is not depicted, although the villages of Warnicke and Drewitz are just visible at bottom and right respectively. The approaching Prussians are just out of shot past Drewitz. |
