The Battle Of Colonieblanche

HERE is the set-up for our first trial of my Franco-Prussian War variant of the Portable Wargame, using a 14x11 5in grid.
The hills remain in position from where I placed them for yesterday's post, and I have added two towns and a wood.
We diced for choice of long table-edge. I won and chose south, which is near the hill that covers three squares, which we named La Grande Colline, and near to the lone hill, Petit Haut Rond.
The town nearer the camera is Colonieblanche and the town taking up two squares in the distance is Villejaune, which is next to Boisvert wood.
I knew my Francophile opponent would want to command the French forces - indeed he said that, for the purposes of the battle, he was sinking his persona into that of Richard de Saxe, a previously unheard of descendant of  Maurice de Saxe, my opponent's great hero.
He - Richard de Saxe, that is, from now on to be referred to as de Saxe - has a republican French army consisting of four units of regular infantry, Garribaldi's Redshirts, the 2nd Hussars, a unit of dragoons and a gun.
Because it is a republican rather than imperial French army, the gun has a range of nine squares and does not have the -1 modifier for firing that is suffered by imperial French artillery. Garribaldi's Redshirts activate on a throw of 2 rather than the 3 of other French units.
My army consists of four units of regular infantry, the 3rd Garde-Regiment zu Fuss, a unit of Prussian uhlans, a unit of Bavarian chevaulegers and a gun.
The guard infantry do not get an extra strength point, but their superior standing is reflected in not needing a die throw to activate.
Each army has 28 strength points and eight units, and so will lose if strength points fall below 14 or units below four..
Each general was allowed to deploy his forces anywhere in the two rows of squares nearest his baseline - their exact positioning being written on a piece of paper prior to deployment.
The result was as can be seen in the photo below, with my Germans nearest the camera.

Ready for the off ... initial deployments

I chose a fairly conventional lime-up, my plan being a general advance by the infantry, with Petit Haut Rond to be occupied by the gun
The infantry's left flank will be covered by La Grande Colline and the chevaulegers, while the  uhlans will guard the right flank.
De Saxe went for an asymmetrical line-up, with all his cavalry on his right flank together with all the rest of the army, apart from a unit of infantry posted behind Villejaune, presumably with orders to occupy the town.

The French line-up ... dragoons nearest the camera

Bird's eye view ... of the German army and the hills

The only thing left to do before battle commenced was to dice for first move, which I won 3-2 after a 6-6 tie.
As usual, I will be writing the battle up turn by turn.