Wellesley looked at the map on the table: "I have to redeploy along the Rhine River.
"Who will be sent to Switzerland? General Picton?"
The Duke of York nodded again: "Yes, but mainly the corps consists of Hessians and Thuringians."
There are 30,000 British soldiers in the Picton Corps, all of whom were retained along the Rhine River at the request of the Duke of York.
Wellesley thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness, please tell General Picton it is best not to take the initiative; the terrain in Switzerland is easy to be ambushed.
"He only needs to set up defensive lines in Basel and intercept the French Army as much as possible when they are ready to withdraw from Switzerland. If Massena is forced to detour through Lausanne, it will delay their entry into the Baden battlefield by a month."
