. Battles of the nineteenth century . - general for courage,determination, and self-reliance. With barely 6,000 men, twelve guns, and300 crawling skeletons—which it is a mockeryto call horses — and burdened with 7,000stragglers, whose wants and selfishness addedgreatly to the difficulties, he followed the tracesof the Grande Armee, easily recognisable by NAPOLEONS RETREAT from Moscow. 1812. English ibo 150 200 2 NAPOLEONS iMOSCOW CAMPAIGN. 325 the burnt-out bivouacs with their circles ofdead—the white mounds that indicated wherea cuirassier, a dragoon, a barefooted voltigeur,slept his
. Battles of the nineteenth century . - general for courage,determination, and self-reliance. With barely 6,000 men, twelve guns, and300 crawling skeletons—which it is a mockeryto call horses — and burdened with 7,000stragglers, whose wants and selfishness addedgreatly to the difficulties, he followed the tracesof the Grande Armee, easily recognisable by NAPOLEONS RETREAT from Moscow. 1812. English ibo 150 200 2 NAPOLEONS iMOSCOW CAMPAIGN. 325 the burnt-out bivouacs with their circles ofdead—the white mounds that indicated wherea cuirassier, a dragoon, a barefooted voltigeur,slept his last sleep, and the patches of trampled,blood-stained snow strewn with helmets andcorpses, over which the dogs wrangled and the twent3--six days without attempting to breakhis parole. Ney boldl)- attacked the eighty thousand men,heading his feeble band in person. They brokethe first line, and were rushing on the secondwhen the guns began again, sweeping the. THE ENGINEER SET FIRE TO THEIR SOLE MEANS OF ESCAP£ (/. 327). ravens croaked in the dull light that showeda battle-ground. Beyond the plain of Katova, where, threemonths before, they had driven Newerowskoithrough the cornfields, they were summoned byan officer in the name of Kutusoff; but whilehe was speaking forty guns opened on theFrench, and Ney exclaimed, A marshal neversurrenders — you are my prisoner, the as-tonished Russian marching with them for columns and killing some women in thewaggons. The French fell back in confusion, but Neyrallied them again, replying with his i>ix remain-ing guns, and showing his teeth with the twothousand ragged wretches who kept their Kutusoff had sent a single corps against them,not a man would have survived to tell the it was, when night fell Ney turned his backon them, and retreated towards Smolensk. T,2b BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. After an hours dreary march they halted,Ney, as usual, in the rear ; and breaking th
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