A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, During the Year 1812 |
Contents
| 206 | |
| 210 | |
| 213 | |
| 221 | |
| 226 | |
| 238 | |
| 244 | |
| 252 | |
| 139 | |
| 142 | |
| 150 | |
| 161 | |
| 170 | |
| 176 | |
| 186 | |
| 192 | |
| 199 | |
| 260 | |
| 269 | |
| 275 | |
| 281 | |
| 287 | |
| 295 | |
| 302 | |
| 331 | |
Other editions - View all
A narrative of the campaign in Russia, during the year 1812 Sir Rober Ker Porter Limited preview - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
advance Alexander allies amongst arms arrived artillery attack bank Barclay de Tolly batteries battle battle of Borodino Beauharnois Blucher body Bonaparte Bragation brave Buonaparté cavalry centre columns command contest corps Cossacs Count Vigtenstein Davoust destroyed destruction detachment direction dispatched division Dneiper Duke Dwina Emperor empire enemy enemy's fell field fire flank followed force France French army ground guard guns honour horrors horses hundred Imperial infantry invader killed Koutousoff Krasnoy Kremlin loss main army Marshal Marshal Ney Medyn ment military Miloradovitch Minsk miseries Mittau Mojaisk Moscow moved movements Murat Napoleon occupied officers orders Oudinot parties passed patriotism peace Petersburgh pieces of cannon Platoff position possession Prince Koutousoff prisoners quarter rear regiments reinforcements retire retreat Riga river road Russian army Russian empire sian Smolenzk soldiers thousand tion took town Tzars victory Vigtenstein village Vinzingorode waggons wersts whole Wiazma Wilna wounded wretched
Popular passages
Page 36 - ... on the lips, he flatters the ears of the credulous and enchains their arms; and if the captive perceives fetters under the flowers, the spirit of domination discovers itself, and he calls forth war to assure the work of treason! But Russia has penetrated his views. The path of loyalty is open to her: she has invoked the protection of God; she opposes to the plots of her enemy an army strong in courage, and eager to drive from her territory this race of locusts who consume the earth, and whom...
Page 56 - France, having taken the best precautions in his power for the defence of the capital. The allies on the 22d having crossed to the right of the Aube, lost no time in adopting the bold resolution of forming the junction of the two armies to the westward, thus placing themselves between the French army and Paris, and proceeding with a united force of at least two hundred thousand men, to the capital of the French empire. In order the better to mask this movement...
Page 319 - ... the hearer, and made him behold the unfathomable depth of the perdition into which the falsehood of the French leader had plunged his too confident followers. " Multitudes of these desolate fugitives lost their speech, others were seized with...
Page 144 - Russia clings to the paternal throne of a sovereign, who stretches over her the guardian arms of affection : she is not accustomed to the yoke of oppression ; she will not endure subjection to a foreign power. She will never surrender the treasure of her laws, her religion, and her independence; and we will shed all our blood in their defence ! This principle is ardent and universal ; and is manifested in the prompt and voluntary organization of the people under the sacred banner of patriotism. Protected...
Page 139 - With their property, most of the people departed ; and Moscow was left a mere desert of walls and houses, without an inhabitant. Call to mind what the human body is when deserted by the soul ! So is Moscow when abandoned by its citizens. The soul of an empire is its people ; and wherever they are, there is Moscow, there is the empire of Russia.
Page 77 - The present constitution shall be submitted to the acceptance of the French people, in the form which shall be regulated. Louis Stanislaus Xavier shall be proclaimed king of the French, as soon as he shall have signed and sworn, by an act stating — " 1 accept the constitution ; I swear to observe it, and cause it to be observed.
Page 17 - ... degenerated ? Should we be no longer the soldiers of Austerlitz ? She has placed us between disgrace and war ; the choice cannot be for an instant doubtful ! Let us then march forward, cross the Niemen, and carry the war into her territories. The second Polish war will be glorious to the French arms like the first ; but the peace which we shall conclude will carry its own guarantees with it, and will put an end to the fatal influence which for the last fifty years Russia has had on the affairs...
Page 134 - Thus closed that memorable day, and with it terminated the lives of EIGHTY THOUSAND human beings. — The horses which lay on the ground from right to left, numbered full 25,000.
Page 142 - was entered by the enemy on the 15th September; at this intelligence it might be expected that consternation would appear on every countenance ; but far from us be such pusillanimity. Rather let us swear to redouble our perseverance and our resolution ; let us hope, that fighting in a just cause, we shall hurl back upon the enemy all the evil with which he seeks to overwhelm us. Moscow, indeed, is occupied by French troops ; it has not become theirs in consequence of their having destroyed our armies...
Page 308 - ... brave heart : but the enemy was frantic ; nothing could be heard but the roar of cannon and the cries of despair. The wounded and the dying covered the surface of the ground; the survivors rushed in wild fury upon their affrighted comrades on the bridges. They could not penetrate, but only press upon a crowd at the nearest extremity ; for the whole bodies of these passages were so filled with desperate fugitives that they crushed on each other to suffocation and to death. Trains of artillery,...