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The Russian center, including Bagration’s rear guard, was arranged at Jankovo,
while the right flank rested on a marshy wooded valley and the left was anchored at
Mondtken on the frozen Alle River. 56 Count Nikolay Kamensky’s 8 th Division, supported
by the 3 rd Division, was deployed at Bergfried to prevent any French flanking maneuvers.
On 3 February, Ney and Augereau attacked the Russian rear guard under Barclay de
Tolly on the road from Allenstein; the Russians had 30 killed and wounded, but halted
the French advance. 57 Map 35. Positions on 2 February 1807
56 Karpov, “Russian Operations in 1806-1807 Campaigns,” RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 3161,
ll. 29b; Hugo, Histoire des Armées Francaises, IV, 22.
57 Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky, Campaigns of 1806-1807, 161; Petre, Napoleon’s Campaign in
Poland, 150-51; Memoirs of Bennigsen, 126.
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