The Battle of Leell - A History of the French Army

Theanguard of the french army of the north was a five thousand men mix of veteran cavalry and newly raised volunteer infantry under the command of an irish general named theobald dillon. Dillon's forces quickly ran into a battery of austrian artillery, took one look at the guns and turned and ran. The most demoralizing part of this ignoble flight was that it was not triggered by the new volunteers, but by seasoned cavalry which did not bode well for the french. Luckily, in the midst of all this chaos, neither the austrians nor the prussians were yet in position to take advantage of the situation.