. Canadian journal of public health . leon theFirst slowly defiled from the ruined cityand began their sorrowful and fatal re-treat. Emaciated and frozen and brokeninto scattered corps, they perished amidthe blinding snows of an alien land. Theseverities of this particular winter aredescribed thus: The wind cut like arazor and hardened the snow into icycrystals, which whizzed through the airlike shot. The rarifieduntil it seemed crisp and brittle and thebiting blasts penetrated to the very vitalsof the weakened soldiers, so that thous-ands dropped by the way or became madand l
. Canadian journal of public health . leon theFirst slowly defiled from the ruined cityand began their sorrowful and fatal re-treat. Emaciated and frozen and brokeninto scattered corps, they perished amidthe blinding snows of an alien land. Theseverities of this particular winter aredescribed thus: The wind cut like arazor and hardened the snow into icycrystals, which whizzed through the airlike shot. The rarifieduntil it seemed crisp and brittle and thebiting blasts penetrated to the very vitalsof the weakened soldiers, so that thous-ands dropped by the way or became madand leaped into the bivouac fires. Notmore than 80,000 out of an invading hostof 680,000 ever returned to La BelleFrance. Between Moscow and Vilnaalone corpses strewed the road. Napoleon quitted his army and hurriedback to Paris, incognito, leaving MarshalNey, who had ibeen scorched and blacken-ed in burning Moscow, to bring back thebroken and decimated battalions of theonce great army. (Concluded next month down to present(Czar.). XXVI
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