The superiority of numbers soon made itself felt.

Pursuant to the Crown Prince's orders, parts of two Bavarian corps began to work their way (but with one strangely long interval of inaction) through the wood to the north of the French left wing; on the Prussian 11th corps fell the severer task of winning their way up the slopes south of Woerth, and thence up to the Niederwald and Elsasshausen.

When these woods were won, the 5th corps was to make its frontal attack from Woerth against Froeschweiler.

Despite the desperate efforts of the French and their Turco regiments, and a splendid but hopeless charge of two regiments of Cuirassiers and one of Lancers against the German infantry, the Niederwald and Elsasshausen were won; and about four o'clock the sustained fire of fifteen German batteries against Froeschweiler enabled the 5th corps to struggle up that deadly glacis in spite of desperate charges by the defenders.
[Footnote 38: See von Blumenthal's _Journals_, p.

87 (Eng.