FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

MAY 1806 FRENCH TURN

The summer campaigning season enters high gear. Keeping an eye on Kutusov, Napoleon remains in Vienna and summons Massena with reinforcements. The Emperor diaspatches a small force under Lannes to Budapest which overcomes the landwehr garrison. Judging further resistance to be futile, Francis sends emissaries to Vienna to negotiate terms of surrender.

The Armée du Oder leaves Berlin and marches eastward. Cavalry probes enter Posen, just 80 miles from the Prussian positions on the Vistula.

Battle of Budapest

Lannes, with 15,000 men, defeats the 5,000 landwehr defending the city. French casualties: 5,000. Austrian casualties: 5,000.

MAY 1806 ALLIED TURN

With Austria out of the war, Russian forces withdraw into Prussia and consolidate at Warsaw. Cossack patrols probe as far as Posen and Dresden. In the latter instance, the terrified Saxon government capitulates to a handfull of cossacks who appear at the city gates. Prussia continues to fortify the Vistula with the Armée du Oder hovering nearby.