4 June: Morning...The Battle of Amity

Initial deployments

Defensive preparations where barely underway when the Slobobians appeared along the main road in force. One unanticipated development was the concentration of all light forces into a  single ad hoc force which was dispatched to find away around the Freedonian right flank.  Wasserman's deployment included for the first time militia, which had been assembling at Amity over the past two days, and had been responsible for whatever defensive positions there were. As such they occupied the advance position and were first in actin when the Slobobians struck. Within a half hour the Militia battalions were routed. But hey had caused sufficient disorder within the Slobobian ranks that Pham passed through the next regiment to continue the attack.

View from behind the Freedonian position looking East

Townspeople alerted Wasserman as to the attempted flanking movement by the Slobobians. he saw with alarm that they would strike his artillery position and rushed the tired 7th Jaegers and his dragoons to bolster the right flank.

At this point the engagement became general with both sides artillery shelling portions of Amity as the fight developed back and forth. Soon much of the town was on fire.

The Successive blows against the Freedonian line each in turn sent them reeling rearwards. The many hedgerows and  built up terrain of the village did not work in the favor of the Freedonians, unable to make best use of their rapid fire needleguns against the swarms of Slobobian attackers. The superior numbers of the Slobobians insured that there was always a fresh battalion to throw into each attack, regardless of the casualties of its predecessor.

Desperate charge of the 2d Dragoons

Ultimately Wasserman was able to draw off his force, admittedly not in the best of order. A fresh Slobobian battalion set off in pursuit. A timely, if desperate, flank charge from the 2d Dragons, slammed into the lead attackers, and thus put an end to any immediate pursuit. However eth cost was high, nearly the entire regiment killed, wounded, captured.

In the end each side lost a further 25% of their force,(Freedonains 1400, Slobobians 2300)... losses the Freedonians could ill afford. However, Wassrman was now able to extract himself, with no enemy pursuit. The Slobobians were too disorganized to follow, and would wait at Amity the rest of the day, reorganizing and awaiting the rest of their column, on the way down form Bethany.

And thus came to a close the four days which would be known as the  Battle of the Frontiers...

4 June: 0400 Aftermath of Bethany

The enemy Brigade attempting to force the gully had pretty much wrecked themselves in the attempt. However with four brigades in this wing,General Mattieu sends Pham and Zervos's brigades to move by the route taken by IR13 and undertake immediate pursuit. Meanwhile the rest of the wing spent the evening getting across consolidating and reorganizing.

That night Brigade Wasserman moved 5 miles west to the small town of Amity. The commander expected that he would be able to make a clean getaway. Unfortunately the assembly of stragglers and the extraction of the wounded resulted in slow going.

It was with great surprise that by 0400 Gen Wasserman received a report from his reargard Dragoons of an enemy force of at least brigade strength being hot on his heels. The Slobobians had pursued through the night after them.

Wasserman realized that this wounded and supply columns would be overtaken unless he could deal a bloody nose to his pursuers. With little rest the Brigade turned and took up positions around Amity and by dawn were ready for another fight.

Rules to be used: Polemos: Commandant de Battaile

Per my Carnage & Glory campaign files these are the two combatant strenths and OBs before the battle starts:

Brigade Wasserman

    [ 412] General de Brigade Wasserman - Active C [450 paces]

[ 112] 7th Jaeger bn                     0/ 480      

[ 113] 1bn 4th Line                      0/ 500       

[ 114] 2bn 4th Line                      0/ 450       

[ 115] 1bn 9th Line                      0/ 810      

[ 116] 2bn 9th Line                      0/ 907       

[ 117] 1bn 22th Line                     0/ 706      

[ 120] 1-3 foot artillery                0/ 105 [ 4] 

[ 121] 2-3 foot artillery                0/  59 [ 3] 

[ 122] 1st Compagne Miilitia bn          0/ 550      

[ 123] LaSalle's Volunteer Grenzers      0/ 395       

Strengths:

losses/active

    0/  4798 Bayonets

    0/   164 Artillerists

    0/     7 Cannon

    0/  5002 Total of all arms

          15 Standards present

Brigade Hylton

    [ 416] General de Brigade Hylton - Active B [450 paces]

[ 118] 2 dragoons                        0/ 420      C+

[ 119] 11 Hussars                        0/ 495      C+

Strengths:

losses/active

    0/   915 Sabres

    0/   915 Total of all arms

           2 Standards present

    Brigade Pham

    [ 512] General de Brigade Pham - Active C [350 paces]

[ 516] 1bn IR21                          0/ 796      C-

[ 517] 2bn IR21                          0/ 810      C-

[ 518] 3bn IR21                          0/ 770      C-

[ 519] 1bn IR13                          0/ 825      C+

[ 520] 2bn IR13                          0/ 504      C+

[ 521] 3bn IR13                          0/ 761      C 

[ 522] 12th Light                        0/ 577      C 

[ 523] 13 Foot artillery                 0/ 181 [ 7] C+

    Brigade Zervos

    [ 514] General de Brigade Zervos - Active B [500 paces]

[ 526] 1bn IR19                          0/ 806      D+

[ 527] 2bn IR19                          0/ 776      C-

[ 528] 3bn IR19                          0/ 800      D+

[ 529] 1bn IR25                          0/ 795      D+

[ 530] 2bn IR25                          0/ 800      C-

[ 531] 3bn IR25                          0/ 766      C 

[ 532] 13th Light                        0/ 800      C 

Strengths:

losses/active

    0/ 10586 Bayonets

    0/   489 Sabres

    0/   524 Artillerists

    0/    21 Cannon

    0/ 11599 Total of all arms

          29 Standards present

Initial positions: Slobobian Briagedes Pursuing at top f fame. In Amity Freedonians deploying