Napoleon's Russian CampaignGeneral de Segur's eyewitness account translated from an abridged version published in 1894. |
Contents
Napoleon at Smolensk | 195 |
from Smolensk | 221 |
The Berezina River Approaching the Berezina | 237 |
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abandoned advance aide-de-camp arms artillery attack battalions battle Belliard Berezina Berthier Bessières Borisov Borodino bridge burned cannon Caulaincourt cavalry column command corps Cossacks cried crossing crowd danger Daru Davout division Dnieper Dorogobuzh Emperor enemy enemy's everything eyes fell fighting fire forced French front gave glory Grand Army guns Gzhatsk halted hands hills hope horses hundred infantry Kaluga King Kovno Krasnoye Kremlin Kutuzov Latour-Maubourg left flank lensk Lobau lost Malo-Yaroslavetz marshal Medyn midst miles Minsk Molodeczno Mortier Moscow Mozhaysk Murat Napoleon Ney's night o'clock officers Old Guard Orsha Oudinot position Prince Eugène prisoners rallied ranks ravine reached rear guard redoubt regiments rest retreat river riverbank road rushed Russian army seemed Ségur shouted side sight silence Smolensk snow soldiers soon stop stragglers Studzianka Tchitchakov terrible thousand took troops turned Viazma Viceroy victory Vilna Vitebsk wagons waiting wood words wounded