The Retreat from .Moscow.— tfir Horace ItumboUl recalls a tragic experience of Haroi'i (le Moyendorfi. wjio fought against Napoleon on the occasion of the terrible retreat from Moscow. MoyendortT acted as galloper to ( lie of the Kussian commanders, ami we are told of liis exciting adventures "In the fading daylight he would certainly have lost his way ou the boundless and featureless, frozen plain, but. for a track which the pursuing Russians had marked, by planting upright in the snowdrifts the corpses of the enemy that had fallen by the way. For a considerable distance, in fact, he had ridden literally through au avenue ox frozen Frenchmen."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 348, 29 March 1911, Page 7
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