ABSTRACT
O N 7 AUGUST, in accordance with their agreed plan, Russian troops began marching from Silesia to join the Army of Bohemia. Five days later, bonfires on the hills around Prague proclaimed that the peace conference was disbanded, and that the armies of Austria would march with their Russian and Prussian allies. That same day, Blucher, with the Prussian corps of Kleist and the Russian corps of Sacken, St Priest and Langeron, moved into the strip of neutral territory. By 15 August he was in contact with the French outposts.
