Battle of Bautzen. 3:00 PM. The village of Preititz falls to the French. Ney has the opportunity to cut off the Allies’ retreat to the southeast, but he gets carried away by the heated atmosphere caused by the fighting on his right, and attacks Blucher to the southwest, also calling in Lauriston. Blucher urges his men to fight “like the Spartans at Thermopylae.” The Russo-Prussians are forced to retreat, but it is not a complete defeat.
