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The villages which had but lately given us shelter were level with the ground: under their ashes were the bodies of hundreds of soldiers and peasants.... But most horrible was the field of Borodino, where we saw the forty thousand men, who had perished there, yet lying unburied."
Why, what a poor creature you must be! You are the very incarnation of fear!" "Fear? I have no fear. Who says that I have? I don't know how it is, but I certainly do feel something a sort of qualm, something like sea-sickness everything seems going round no doubt a sudden indisposition such a thing might happen to the bravest man Napoleon, they say, was bilious at Borodino.
Napoleon suffered from stomach complaints from an early period of his career, and one of their effects is greatly to lessen the powers of the sufferer's mind. His want of energy at Borodino was attributed to a disordered stomach, and the Russians were simply beaten, not destroyed, on that field.
After the retreat from Moscow had been decided upon, many thousands of the sick were sent ahead on wagons under strong guards. These wagons took the shortest road to Borodino, while the army took the road to Kaluga. Several thousand typhus patients were left in Moscow, all of whom died, with the exception of a few, according to later information.
It was this maneuver which gave Napoleon his victories of Wagram and Ligny. This was what he wished to attempt at Borodino, where he obtained only a partial success, on account of the heroic conduct of the Russian left and the division of Paskevitch in the famous central redoubt, and on account of the arrival of Baggavout's corps on the wing he hoped to outflank.
"I, Barlasch of the Guard Marengo, the Danube, Egypt picked up after Borodino a letter like it. I cannot read very quickly indeed Bah! the old Guard needs no pens and paper but that letter I picked up was just like this." "Was it addressed like that to Madame Desiree Darragon?" "So a comrade told me. It is you, her husband?" "Yes," answered Charles, "since you ask; I am her husband."
But when it was repeated a second and a third time, she awoke her husband and asked him where Borodino was. She told him her dream, and they searched through the maps with the greatest care, but could not discover any such place.
The troops at once began to defile. Behind them long convoys hurried to escape the French. Five sixths of the population had quitted the town when the columns of those wounded in the battle of Borodino appeared at their doors, and they were obliged to crowd their hospitals and churches with 15,000. By abandoning their capital the Russians entrusted these wretches to the pity of their enemies.
And so I pray God to have you, my friend, in His holy and powerful keeping Your friend Helene. This letter was brought to Pierre's house when he was on the field of Borodino.
Some idea of the expenditure of human life, during the campaign of 1812, may be formed from the following facts, which we had from unquestionable authority: The number of killed and wounded on both sides at the battle of Borodino, which did not extend from flank to flank more than three English miles, was ascertained to exceed 75,000 men.
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