RUSSIAN WARFARE
NAPOLEON'S EXPERIENCES
In Napoleon's own vivid images, one follows the French advance' across the rolling steppes to Moscow-. But when the French entered Moscow the city was empty and eerie. And when the mysterious fire* broke out, destroying three houses out of four, Napoleon complained bitterly of a deed that "is as useless as it is atrocious. The fire pumps had beer* broken, or taken away." And when the real Winter came, and the long retreat was ordered, Napoleon wrote many a gray note? to the Duke of Bassano. "Since my last dispatch, our position has growi* worse. Almost all our horses—3o,ooo of them—have perished as a result of cold—sixteen degrees of frost . The enemy have one thing we lack they are accustomed to' moving en ice ... A gun that we cannot drag, 'out of an insignificant ravine without losing twelve or fifteen horses, and twelve or fifteen hours, they can haul up, by using sleds . . • as rapidly as though there were no» ice at all."—From "Napoleon Speaks'* by Mr A. Carr.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 5
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174RUSSIAN WARFARE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 5
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