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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Grave to Gay. (search)
problem now to be solved, was a march upon Moscow, from Smolensko. The distance is only three hundred miles. Up to Smolensko the country was all on Napoleon's side, and he procured horses, men and provisions, without any difficulty. Was this a very rash enterprise, even supposing the intermediate space to have been a desert? If it was, we shall take occasion hereafter to show the world has misjudged all those whom it has considered its greatest Generals — such as Alexander, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Turenne, &c.; for every one of these Generals gained their laurels by expeditions far more unpromising. From Smolensko Napoleon marched upon Moscow, at the head of 160,000 men. The Russians continually retired before him until they reached Borodino. At four intermediate points between Smolensko and Borodino he left strong detachments, amounting, in the aggregate, to 40,000 men. At all these points magazines and hospitals were established and they guarded