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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Grave to Gay. (search)
ar 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 magazineBorodino he left strong detachments, amounting, in the aggregate, to 40,000 men. At all these points magazines and hospitals were established and they guarded his rear so effectually that during the whole time of his march, and of the twenty days stay in Moscow, not a sick soldier, not a convoy, not an estafette, or even a straggler, was carried off, in the long distance that lies between Moscow and Mentz.--With 120,000 men he fought the battle of Borodino, about seventy miles from Moscow. No man in the world but Rostopchin dreamed of burning Moscow — not even the Emperor Alexander, or Kutusoff, or Sir Robert Wilson. The 630,000 men that the Magazine talks about never existed. The 250,000 men it talks about as being destroyed before Napoleon left Smolensko for