ON THE

CHARACTER AND COMPOSITION

OF THE

Russian Army,

AND A

SKETCH

OF THE

CAMPAIGNS IN POLAND

IN THE

YEARS 1806 AND 1807.

BY

SIR ROBERT WILSON,

AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE KING; KNIGHT OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF
MARIA THERESA, &c. &c. &c.

Veritas visu et morâ; falsa, festinatione et incertis, valescunt.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL-YARD, TEMPLE-BAR.

AND SOLD BY T. EGERTON, MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.

1810.

BOOLETT

117 JU 1935

KIBRARY

TO FIELD-MARSHAL

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE DUKE OF YORK,

UNDER WHOSE ADMINISTRATION

THE BRITISH ARMY

HAS RECOVERED ITS CONSIDERATION ABROAD,

AND BEEN ESTABLISHED ON A BASIS

COMMENSURATE WITH

THE POWER AND DIGNITY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY THE AUTHOR.