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Through Russian Snows
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There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon's staff, minute descriptions of the events as seen by eye-witnesses, and besides these the campaign has been treated fully by various military writers. I have as usual avoided going into details of horrors and of acts of cruelty and ferocity on both sides, surpassing anything in modern warfare, and have given a mere outline of the operations, with a full account of the stern fight at Smolensk and the terrible struggle at Borodino.
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Table of contents
- Title
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 - TWO BROTHERS
- Chapter 2 - BEFORE THE JUSTICES
- Chapter 3 - IN A FRESH SCRAPE
- Chapter 4 - THE SMUGGLER'S CAVE
- Chapter 5 - FOLLOWING A TRAIL
- Chapter 6 - A COMMISSION
- Chapter 7 - A FRENCH PRISON
- Chapter 8 - PISTOL PRACTICE
- Chapter 9 - A DUEL
- Chapter 10 - SMOLENSK
- Chapter 11 - WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY
- Chapter 12 - BORODINO
- Chapter 13 - WITH THE REAR-GUARD
- Chapter 14 - NEY'S RETREAT
- Chapter 15 - IN COMFORTABLE QUARTERS
- Chapter 16 - AN UNEXPECTED MEETING