The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-07-27

was charged with Lithuanian tempests.
Hail was his grape and shrapncl. The
Emperor of the French had never studied
his tactics-not even in the Abs.
The Russian ummcr was us midWintcr
to the soldiers of Franco and Spain and
Italy. The divisions of jerome and Eu-
gene could hardly advance at all. The
bowling storms made impossible the UNI
graded roads; the 1900 guns of the Grand
Army sank into the miro. Uorsc-life and
life fell and persisted in the slect of
the mock-summcr that ragged along the
watershed between the Dwina and the
Dnicper.
The Russians under Kutusoff reccded
during July and the first half Ct August.
On the 10Th Of that month the first battle
was fought ut Smolensko. This place the
French pounded into ruins and captured
with u loss to themselves OF nearly IL, 600
men. ~Dorogobourg, Wanna, and Giatsk
fell before the invaders. The Russians
burst not stand in the open field. Not I'M
til tho 18th of September did Kutusoff
plant himself on the Moskwa and offer
battle to his antagonist. There, at the vii
lagco of Borodino, was fought out the great
est murder of modern times. A thousand
cannon vomited death all day. Under the
smoke Il quarter of II million of men strug-
gled like tigers. At nightfall the French
had the field. But the defeated Russians
hung sullonly to the skirts of tho bloody
arena, where they had left more han 49,
600 of their dead and wounded. The
French losses We're almost equally appall-
ing. "Sirc," said Marshal Ncy, "wo would
better withdraw, and reform" "7'hou adj
wise n retreat, Michele" said the marble
hand ,- a ],--al - - mn -.
ties.
Kutusotf abandoned Moscow. Most of
the inhabitants recedcd with him from the
city to the great plains eastward. On the
10Th of September, Napoleon entered the
ancient capital. The streets were as n ne
cropolis. All was silence. The conqueror
took up his residence in the old palace OF
the Cars. He had now performed this act
in nearly all the royal places of Europe.
He had walked unbiGdcn into Schon-
brunn. In the vault at Potsdam he had
put his hand on the catafalquc of Freder-
lex the Great. He had trod the unwelcom.
ing slabs of the Escurial. He had win,
tered in Warsaw. Now he slept in the
Kremlin.
Moscow promised rest after hardship.
Here we will spend the winter in the lux.
uriOus quarters of the Muscoyite grandees
and metropolitans. We will extempori2t
our theaters, us in Cairo. Beautiful WON.
en- Shall dance before the marshals of the
Empire. From this place we will issue oul
edicts, as from Berlin and Milan. Lo, out
of the Bazaar, near the Kremlin, bursts q
volume of flannel The surrounding region
Is lighted with the glare. The equinoctiaI
gale springs up. The city is on fire in 9
thousand places. Skulkers have remained
behind and given us to the flames. III,
French army tries in vain to qucnch tn,
conflagration. For five days there is tn,
roar of universal combustion. Then il
subsidies; but Moscow is in ruins. Napo
leon returns to the Kremlin and omen.
vain negotiations with the Car. Alcxan
der and KutusNif will not hear Tn
French are in ttIr ashes of u burnt-Ep Rus
sian city.
Already winter was at hand. Snow wa
falling. The Soldier of Fortune has at las
found his destiny. On the 18th of Octo
Der, he lec.Tes Moscow, and the retreat be
gins to the Niemen On every side tn
COssacks arise and assail the fugitiyes
The soldiers of the West and South drol
by thousands on the frozen roads. TIL
SHOWS cover them. The ice-darts in thei
sides are sharper than ~bayoncts. The col
umns stagger and swing to right and left
A hundred and twenty thousand men rol
away across the hostile world. At TIL
Beresina the bridges are broken dow