From our correspondent attached to Prussian HQ: Yesterday afternoon and evening, and continuing into the night, the Prussian army fought a ferocious battle with the Emperor's forces but, alas, even their courage could not prevail and the late arrival of the fearsome French Imperial Guard finally broke their resolve and the battle was lost. Worse news was to follow when the elderly Marshal Blucher was ridden down by French cavalry and apparently lost. There was heated discussions amongst the staff as to which direction the Prussian army should take in its efforts to escape before the morning but, praise the Lord, at the last moment the gallant Blucher was found, bruised and shaken but still very much in command. He brusquely stopped all talk of retreating east and on the basis that he had pledged his word to remain in support of the Duke of Wellington the orders were given for the Prussians to move north.
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