Ney, and a fresh division, at length came up, and succeeded in occupying the village of Schloditten, on the road to Konigsberg.

To regain this, and thereby recover the means of communicating with the King of Prussia, was deemed necessary; and it was carried accordingly at the point of the bayonet.

This was at ten o'clock at night.

So ended the longest and by far the severest battle in which Buonaparte had as yet been engaged.

The French are supposed to have had 90,000 men under arms at its commencement; the Russians not more than 60,000.