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Brief Account Of Colonel Maek,
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COLONEL MAEK ,
A CELEBRATED AUSTRIAN OFFICER OF THE PRESENT DAY .
COLONEL Maek is a native of Wurzburg , and son of a tradesman of that place . _ He began his military career as a common hussar in an Austrian regiment , but his uncommon talents for military drawing , his unwearied application to this art , and his extraordinary skill in laying down plans , soon raised him from obscurity , and introduced him to the notice of Marshal Laudohn . This General employed him on
different occasions , and attached him to the staff of the army under the character of a Geographic Engineer . His distinguished conduct at the affair of Lissa still more ingratiated him with that great commander . Field-marshal-Laudohn had made all his dispositions for crossing the Danube , and attacking that place . Mr . Maek , who had formed the plan of passing the river , as well as that of the attack , went the night before to the Marshal to receive his last orders ; when this General
informed him , that he had just received intelligence of the Turks having been reinforced at Lissa by a corps of 30 , 000 men , and that of course he had given up his project of an attack , as , after having passed the river , in case of meeting with any disaster , he should be at a loss how to effeqt his retreat . Mr . Maek did not credit the report of the reinforcement , but could not prevail on the Marshal to execute his intended attack . Mr . Maek left the General , crossed the Danube in
aboatac-_ . , companied by one single hulan , stole into the place , got certain information of the supposed reinforcement not having arrived , took a Turkish , officer prisoner in the suburb , repassed the Danube , and at four o'clock in the morning informed . the Marshal of his expedition . On this report the Austrian army passed the river , and took Liffa , the whole garrison of which place , consisting of 6000 men , were made prisoners of war . '
In the present war , Colonel Maek , " still , attached to the staff , has much contributed to the successes obtained at the beginning of the campaign , especiall y at the attack and capture of the camp of Famars , for which he made all the necessary dispositions . In this affair he re . ceived a wound , the cure of which obliged him to repair to Brussels . He expected to be made Quarter-master General of Prince Cobourg's
army , but this place having fallen to the share of Prince Hohenloe , his wound afforded him a pretext to retire to Vienna . Called there to the conferences held with respect to the plan of operations for the ensuing campaign , he has caused a system to be adopted totally different from that which has been pursued in the preceding campaig-ns . r Phis he has laid at Brussels before the commanding Generals of the confederate troops , and has communicated the same to our government . We learn that every where it . has met with the fullest approbation .
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Brief Account Of Colonel Maek,
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COLONEL MAEK ,
A CELEBRATED AUSTRIAN OFFICER OF THE PRESENT DAY .
COLONEL Maek is a native of Wurzburg , and son of a tradesman of that place . _ He began his military career as a common hussar in an Austrian regiment , but his uncommon talents for military drawing , his unwearied application to this art , and his extraordinary skill in laying down plans , soon raised him from obscurity , and introduced him to the notice of Marshal Laudohn . This General employed him on
different occasions , and attached him to the staff of the army under the character of a Geographic Engineer . His distinguished conduct at the affair of Lissa still more ingratiated him with that great commander . Field-marshal-Laudohn had made all his dispositions for crossing the Danube , and attacking that place . Mr . Maek , who had formed the plan of passing the river , as well as that of the attack , went the night before to the Marshal to receive his last orders ; when this General
informed him , that he had just received intelligence of the Turks having been reinforced at Lissa by a corps of 30 , 000 men , and that of course he had given up his project of an attack , as , after having passed the river , in case of meeting with any disaster , he should be at a loss how to effeqt his retreat . Mr . Maek did not credit the report of the reinforcement , but could not prevail on the Marshal to execute his intended attack . Mr . Maek left the General , crossed the Danube in
aboatac-_ . , companied by one single hulan , stole into the place , got certain information of the supposed reinforcement not having arrived , took a Turkish , officer prisoner in the suburb , repassed the Danube , and at four o'clock in the morning informed . the Marshal of his expedition . On this report the Austrian army passed the river , and took Liffa , the whole garrison of which place , consisting of 6000 men , were made prisoners of war . '
In the present war , Colonel Maek , " still , attached to the staff , has much contributed to the successes obtained at the beginning of the campaign , especiall y at the attack and capture of the camp of Famars , for which he made all the necessary dispositions . In this affair he re . ceived a wound , the cure of which obliged him to repair to Brussels . He expected to be made Quarter-master General of Prince Cobourg's
army , but this place having fallen to the share of Prince Hohenloe , his wound afforded him a pretext to retire to Vienna . Called there to the conferences held with respect to the plan of operations for the ensuing campaign , he has caused a system to be adopted totally different from that which has been pursued in the preceding campaig-ns . r Phis he has laid at Brussels before the commanding Generals of the confederate troops , and has communicated the same to our government . We learn that every where it . has met with the fullest approbation .