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| | Bernadotte 1806 - Is There a Case for the Defence? |
 | | Indeed, even after the battle of Jena was over, Napoleon initially refused to believe that this was the case and when he received news of Davout's remarkable victory at Auerstädt from Colonel Falcon, Davout's aide-de-camp, he responded with "Your marshal must have been seeing double." Auerstädt was never to feature as a Napoleonic battle honour. |
 | | Furthermore, Chandler, in his Jena 1806 (in which, incidentally, he is far less scathing about Bernadotte than in his Campaigns of Napoleon) also suggests that the topography of the Saale may have masked the sounds of firing from Auerstädt, whilst amplifying those at Jena. |
 | | It is worth noting that Foucart in Campagne de Prusse - Jena 1806 estimated that, combined with the drift of the battle towards Weimar, the earliest that the leading Division of I Corps could have arrived on the field was approximately 1230, followed by the second Division at approximately 1600. |
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