From the bridge the road makes a steep turn; continuing to wind in a ribbon through the gorge, it passes several times from one bank to another and only before the village of Göschenen does it "breaks out of the gloomy crevice into the light of God".

Whether in the hope of the position impregnability, or owing to the late arrival at the place of defence and the inevitable bustle, but they did not prepare the bridge destruction before the attackers appeared.

Major Trevogin with 200 jaegers descended to the stream with great effort and, overcoming even greater difficulties, began to cross the Reuss.

It took not a little time to cross and then to move to the rear and flank of the French position, so that Colonel Trubnikov's column, sent to bypass the Urner-Loch, fulfilled its task earlier.

They were an impressive force, because General Kamensky, who had received orders to cross the Betzberg ridge in the evening and follow Lecourbe to bypass the Urner-Loch and the Devil's Bridge, happened to be with them.

[4] As soon as it became clear that the French intended to retreat from the bridge, the Russians of the right bank rushed forward and began to make a hasty crossing over the ruined arch.

Immediately the pioneers set about carefully repairing the damaged portion of the bridge, and at 5 o'clock the whole delayed column of Russian troops moved forward.

This weak defence and especially the incomplete spoilage of the Devil's Bridge, gave some reason to conclude that Lecourbe lured Suvorov deeper into the Reuss valley, from where the Russians had no way out and where they should therefore perish.