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Show The Battle of Brie A Stubborn ami Blood y C out est The N. Y. Trlhiae'. -oc'.a! c .rr-.-- ' pondent at the liL-adquartL-r- (A' $i.(j-A army at Champ. te!;r;ipb- the- j following detail of the rt-at 'tjniV.c of December Grh: The whole Saxrn i'orc-ca eni'-iL'cJ in tlie recent oj-eratious numoercii bat lO.OOO uien. They occuijiud pt;.iciun.s at ioi-y Le Grand, Chaiiij.w. Lou!Lay. ! illiera. and in their viein.iy wu a d":- I via'Oll of WurteillbUig'.-Ia. COU:!!iai.dv.-d ! by Gen. A un Oberuciz. a riLi--ian ' omer. Ihj Wurtomuu gcis occupud pomions an Ui me.-sun, L'liennev icre. and Noiseau, and in their vicinity w-n a brigade of the Second Cur; s. Tnis furce .was made up of coru!i;iu;i.n from various other portions of t;,e s-suue corps, and 'Was commanled by G n. on Fransecky, who had nominal direction di-rection of ail the operation.-;, tuper. i-ed, however, as rearuei the ax-M.-. by Prince George in person, wno.-c Le.d-le-i.-iies of danger must have .- 'ic.y tried the nerves of his a La If. A contingent force uppDi-ced the Wurtemourgers; the cxms had no backing but their own vaa;i Li a... the (Jermau troops engaged an 1 immediately imme-diately supporting amounted to '2'2.0 n.i men. Tins force, it cems had lcju detailed lor an offensive movement, and the programme was greatly complicated com-plicated by the unexpected c-at:iLer-ollen.-ive movement of the French projected pro-jected against Yi.licrs, and with hope? of untimely breaking through tile cer-doti cer-doti surrounding them. It thv ha;,-pened ha;,-pened that, a- the German-: were pre.-sing in to drive the Freneii out of : Uric and Ciiampigiiy, the 1' tench w-re j simuitaneOUsiy pouring out to ta-:e illiCl. I rode into Ch imps, whither Frince George had moved hi- he.id'piarter the previous evening, and ituind ti.e battie raging tierceiy over the Lr--ken count r to the .south v,--t of that v ii lage. It was in and arouu .1 th;.-e silages, si-lages, Brie, ill uts and Ctiam pijny, ttiat the uico-ly dsauia a-- en icie i i the day he f-ire ye.-teruay. Viiea i:.e C.utaiu ieli on that drama the Saxons s ood fat in nders in spite id all the French troops and iort.i c mid uo tit di-loilge thrm. Biic and Cli.mpigny 1 ing under the uns of hut .Nugent, and the strjngly-arnied eai"tirvurks at FaisunTie, on the Verge uf :he foi'St of Vi:4c.-n:ies, .overliaiiguig 'Si. -Uaur. remain in tlie hands ol the Lrench. A PRUSSIAN DASH INTO IIKIK. When I crossed the riwr at nine o'clock, Noisy was an eli.b.e poim from which to ob-erve opcrations. Shells from Mount Avron were coming very i Hick ; now there wa a .hower uf slate as a heil crashed through a rof, lifting the solid i afters if they were lath-; now half the side of a houe went down bodily as some huge projectile pro-jectile r truck and crushed it. Brie divided with Noi-y the attention uf tlie French batteries, and Biie is more open to attack. The R'Ttli regiment J had made a da.-h into Brie out oi K -ny eany in the morning, and i wondered won-dered much how it had fired with them hard enough, no doiiht but could they hold lue p ace under ttich ding-dong pelting ? By ten o"ciock the (pieslion wa resolved. First came a diove of French prisoner-;, red-breeched red-breeched regular.-, up low aids Noi.-y, along the slight shelter alh-rdf-d hy tlie road; then axon soldiers and more prisoners; ami tiually, the bu.K of the JuJth in very open order, mutiny the most of the few o port unities h -r c- ''er. Lt was uot a pleasant way to traverse. FoiLs tired heavily on captors and cao-tuied cao-tuied auke, mure than one frenchman was slain by mis.-i.es Uo.n fieucn Weapon". A MIKNfll PK.0-;'n; Tli.. As the Fru--iaus I'.oui Brie lii.i.-Iu 1 tiling through NHv, an oiuiimu- sii,t met my eye in amuiier uircr' i-ti a- i peered through a ioup imIc I ha i co;.-trived co;.-trived there. On the gr.riu tl .-...-j , i l lie further hank '"d the Maine, m.der the wing of Fori Xugciit. and : . i -iu right and left aio e: the Ci,a:i;n u la'oway. Were u n-e ciumu- ui I i . ,i. n . nl ant ry. How tli y ca.ne t n re 1 know not. It w.is a- n' tnc -p c: ; hail sjTU;g up hy m,i.i.:. --w ih j stut'd. Ia-l ci"-HU' tip a- l.,c i.uu"- ba.'.ahon- SuL.tr . i. ii.ai .i.oie wa- a I -anv in iveuiont torw.Li.i a- t..j i. ,,.! i I t lie iM.iitiiii d., p i . ai ui - ,. ; - I tween th-i ;d.i,e of N ':: .o. i tia I laver. Then tnere sceim d to . a d . ha.i. 1 ne vluiise ma-.-u- -;. i. tie o ! oiiei - lit iu' in t hv - . . . . a - .. t ho u. i n ha i tea.e i ut lor .t - p- i . . B.u i;:;;eiy ti, r n .- tr.ck iiu- off down ui ; ., i ,.; t lie n '-r ' '' - n N- j. a l B , i f lu i e v a - a ra:i w.,y 1 . . ; . ; :.e ( moo; B. ii. way a . y .a : ; : a , i.ap in one -u h had r. :. i d .; - ; (t --. 1 'n u! ,y. on t i.t1 n -ouih of B '. a ki;. ; f ; 1 ; . . !.- - l- eatr.o vBib.c t! at .. v a- 1 ; d.n-' r rv- : v ;,. . .. y li.e L'' : . ... j :f"U) M.i l r a: i e , t o j -. ,i- ; i a" . . ; T..e i:, s,.u; i : . , i i a: i.w.irt : . . i. . . ' i v. ; n i , v . : . . . At Cham, i -.-.v. 1 a:.. .: .: ing. had d; i en t Iu i . : a i a: i. ; long :r oil'.t '"''" k. ' !e '.a su'-j-o'ed to vV! n' at'ck :.i.d parU." vpu -i-.-L. Th- .-:.arp-?h-"-OT.?rsia-b-.d gr-ubd. i-.adscrjmei-d thr.j-jh. 'Ih- :r----- b. Li.id;iii :-.'.'...wei a erne-'.' Tn-.-y had eros-ei J-;n;jg the-t:Lh' the-t:Lh' ani '--up;-d the F-.-.p. Thrir 'ridj. - n.n-t Lave U-.-n lr-twc.-n Join v;..-- N-'-'ent: aii the Duiiidcudo "i" f.-r t:;i ..ei the utt-izatin ;-t a ia'-r h 'ur ef a bridge between Brie an 1 t':: - ra;.w::y viaduct. T:,-.- F.t-nch skirmishers w-.re thrown 'ut wit a us much r-. guiarity as if it e day.- work ha! UcQ but a peaccidi parad-. Th-- I rc-- w--re dep;.t-d with --arpiisinj npidity and apparent o:.--;p.iiie: but thete appearei con-ider-a:-;e luo-eness in their for'uad'-n: a t' tai want of intervals, and. indeed, in plaC'.-s an ovt-riappmg ot battai.otJS. Had there been nothing else fur- the .aon- to do but to repuk-e an assault on " i.hers directed tOid.y aamst it. the ta-k Wuibd have been comparatively comparative-ly simple and not very sanguinary, n itwit li-tandiiiiT the artillery n're by the French. But the advance threat cuing, as it did, in the evolution by which it wa- deployed, to sweep ruh: on, overlapping ihier-, up the space between tnat place and Noi-y, and so to g-jt thruugii ujion Champs, ea.led for other tact cs. A iil.ers culd only seive as a pos.tion on whieli to lean the craxon left; it became necessary to meet the French in the opeu space. THE FRENCH ADVANCE CHECKED. Fiolu behind A liters several German) Ger-man) legiments came out to the light 'f tne hruW of the hdl under tlie sheil-iiie. sheil-iiie. As the French came up the geu-tie geu-tie ac.ivuy, the guns of tue forts continued con-tinued play ng without interruption, o li.t. row was the margin between the comoatants that i question much whether a shed or two aid not fad in the French ranks. I stood by the Kth regiment as it qmUed a pj-itiou in which it had found some sheiu r. fv.o lieutenants gaily shouk hands w,ta a hu-sar aide-de-camj) wuo Lad jit.-: rude up With an order, as they pa--ed i:;m to go out i.-.to the b tttle. tj.i V.cnt U:e reeli.ielit ill delise cj.U jjUS oi companies, sites now crashing into i:,: m.w expi ring in me mter- iiiu line was ibruied, rear tiles closing clos-ing up at the douoie-quick, and, iu a twitik.mg, less than lii'ty yards separa-ied separa-ied the c--m!.'a:aut-. 'iiieii c:t me a voaey, then sharp tiring by hie, and tne f leucu b: oke and gave gi'otMKi. o.ily to Let bac.i to the lu-xt dij" of tne ground to let the guns ol' the tort yet to work again. 1 he taxons had to tin i what cvcr they migut. hen aiu regiments caiue laacK they had nut Oeeu gone iwauty minutes thirty-iive thirty-iive oiUcers out of tlie tony live had gone duwn. Neither of the bhtho ne me mints wei e t j tlie lore. Now tnere came a lud iu the mu-keiry tire, a- a tew mom'.-nts before the-e had oecii a lu,l in the cannon, 'f ne 6ax-ons 6ax-ons could not get their artillery into aciii'U with advantage. The ground itself was uulavorabie, whi-e the tire from the foi ts mu.-t Jiave speedily si-' ! leuced their tie Id guns ; therefore this great advantage was lost to them. THE LAST STKl'GOLE. All this took place bef ire noon. After Af-ter a little time the artilleiy lire from the torts slackened considerably The French infantiy made no demonstration. demonstra-tion. On the Gei man left, however, about Champigny, it was evident that haid lighting was going on. About one o clock tne trench made another advance, having r ceiled considerab.e reinforcements. Tlie baxoii iutantiy coulrouted them with the old result, but a ditibrent policy was this time adopted, ft was plaiu that the only escape from the thunderbolts of the torts lay iu getting at close quarters with the Fieuch infantry, umess, indeed, in-deed, a retrograde movement was to be made, and that, was nut to be thought jf. So when the French fed back, the Svx 'tis followed on if they wutnd settle tiie question with the bayonet's bay-onet's point. What happened iu the next hour I c ml-1 only guess, by the cmi-iant crackling of small arms, 'fne Ibits eon lined ihem-e.vc-. apparently, tor tlie chief part, to tinu into and ov. r Champig.iy aul A ilheis. 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