Marmont's men, intoxicated with the news of the success of the other divisions of the army, just as soon as they were given the word, which was just as soon as Napoleon could bring up their comrades, fell on Bluecher like a storm.

They came in battle contact in the village of Vauchamps.

The fighting was of the most desperate character.

The battle was harder than all of the others put together.

Bavarians, Prussians, and Russians, fighting under the eye of brave old Bluecher himself, who recklessly exposed his person on the field, were tenacious and courageous to the highest degree, but the tactics and dispositions of Napoleon, the spirit of his men, his own equally reckless exposure of his person under fire, and a cavalry dash at the allied rear at Janvilliers, finally turned the wavering tide of battle.