Znojmo

So there are major components through the rest of the war, major components and major battles.

So the Regensburg Campaign, the Battle of Linz in mid-May, at Wagram, and then again at Znaim and Worm.

The key contingents here in April are Bavaria.

There are about 30,000 men that make up the 7th Corps with a substantial artillery component, and they conduct an exemplary rearguard action at Landshut on the 16th.

Napoleon's basing this in his track records of the 1790s.

But Messina the previous year had fought with great skill and actually great energy at Aspern Essling, at Wagram, at Znaim.

So, you know, he's a thorough plunderer and utterly corrupt, but he's a very, very good general.

So he's a very good choice, it seems, for this army.

See terms.

The road for the French from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the Russians from Krems to Znaim.

The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right, across the hills, from the Krems' Znaim to the Vienna's Znaim road.

Bagration was to make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French, he was to delay them as long as possible.

kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to snehm marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills with his hungry ill-shot soldiers and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way bagration came out on the vienna snehm road at hollebrunn a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollebrunn from vienna kutuzov with his transport had still to march for some days before he could reach his name hence bagration with his four thousand hungry exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army that came upon him at holoprun which was clearly impossible but a freak of fate made the impossible possible the success of the trick that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without a fight led murat to try to deceive kutuzov in a similar way meeting bagration's weak detachment on this name road he supposed it to be kutuzov's whole army to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna and with this object offered a three days truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving murat declared that negotiations for peace were already proceeding and that he therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed count nostitz the austrian general occupying the advanced posts believed murat's emissary and retired leaving begratian's division exposed another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days truce Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce, and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.

A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport in heavy convoys, whose movements were concealed from the French, advance if but one stage nearer his name.

Then fortunately at the end of this five performance run, I think the final performance was something I could live with, was not great, but I say, okay, that was okay.

And then we had three more performances in Znojmo in another town in Czech Republic where we needed to adapt the production a little bit.

And then I was in Good Voice.

So in general, I think, yes, I can, as I said, I can do the things that I could do 30 years, 25 years, 20 years ago, maybe, but I have to take into account recovery periods will take longer.