Their extreme left rested on the spurs of the lusatian mountains, while their long front of some four miles in extent stretched northwards along a ridge that rose between the River Spree and an affluent, and bent a convex threatening brow against that river and town.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Thus Napoleon proposed to act on the offensive in the open country towards Berlin and in Silesia, remaining at first on the defensive at Dresden and in the lusatian mountains.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
He had 100,000 men among the lusatian hills between Bautzen and Zittau.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose