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The French attacked Halle the next morning, before Laurence and Temeraire had even gotten underway. Hohenlohe instead asked Laurence to take the King and Queen to Berlin to join the royal children. They were still in Berlin when they received word that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden Marshal Bernadotte] had taken Magdeburg, cutting Hohenlohe off, and that the French had crossed the Elbe before a single bridge could be destroyed. | The French attacked Halle the next morning, before Laurence and Temeraire had even gotten underway. Hohenlohe instead asked Laurence to take the King and Queen to Berlin to join the royal children. They were still in Berlin when they received word that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden Marshal Bernadotte] had taken Magdeburg, cutting Hohenlohe off, and that the French had crossed the Elbe before a single bridge could be destroyed. | ||
− | After the children had been sent to presumed safety in Konigsberg | + | After the children had been sent to presumed safety in Konigsberg, Temeraire and Laurence continued on with the royal couple until they rejoined the Prussian army 20 miles west of Posen. In Posen, there was more news: Hohenlohe had surrendered the remnant of his army on October 28 at Prenzlau, 50 miles NNE of Berlin and 30 miles west of Stettin. |
Hohenlohe spent two years as a prisoner of war in France, retired to his estates and lived in self-imposed obscurity until his death in 1818. | Hohenlohe spent two years as a prisoner of war in France, retired to his estates and lived in self-imposed obscurity until his death in 1818. |