Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-08

8 8resourees of European civilization. 5bad his veterans and his marshals. 5 had his underkings. He had his nus and the experience of more than |Hen years of warfare.
 k for Russia, she had savage forces, Ia domains, an assem blaze of barba- N peoples, inaccessible cities, impassa- bfigers and illimitable steppes. She sa also patriotism and physical hardi- 1a, She had the Cossaoks. she knew aself; and her enemy knew her not. b Hhad winter-sublime. yellow black Eaier, blown out of the hyperborean |Eelns, unfelt by the men of Western hope
 |m the 24th of June, the Grand boy, crossing tbe Niemen, headedko. ads Moscow. The advance was but sih impeded. The Russians fell back |hre the resistless invaders.
 Tho Russians under Kutusof reeeded hing July and the first half of Au- aa On the l6th of that month the v battle was fought at Smolensko. Ab place the French pounded into llas and captured with a loss to them @ses of nearly 12, 900 men. Dorogo- Rag, Yiazma. and Gjatsk fell before E Invaders The Russians durst not and ln the open field. Not until the A of September did Kutusoff plant Ekelf on the Moskwa and offer battle [ns antagonist. There, at the village Eborodino, was fought out the great Enufder of modern times. A thou
 cannon yomited death all day. Un- Fehe smoke quarter of a million of
 struggled like tigers. At nightfall French had the field But the de- Fa Russians hung sullenly to the @'s Of the bloody arena. where they & left more than 40, 900 of their dead
 grounded. The French losses were R0st equally appalling Sire" said Raai Ney, i've would better with F' and reform /" Thou advise re-
 aiehel?o said the marble head,
 turned to the Bulldog of Battles. Ra'asoff abandoned Moscow. Most of 'llaoltants reeeded with him from siey 10 the great plains eastward. 'ue 10th of September, Napoleon en-
 'ae ancient capital. The streets
 @ a metropolis. All was silence.
 ,.aqueror took up his residence in Viu palace of the Gzars. He had now Otled this act in nearly all the
 piaees of Europe. He had walked
 ausn into Schonbrunn. In the vault
 s'saam he had put his hand on the
 Aqae or Frederick the Great. He ,,i, aou tae unwelcoming slabs of the
 1lai' lie had wintered In Warsaw.
 ne slept in the Kremlin.
 's00w promised rest after hardship. ae VIII spend the winter in the da. sus quarters of the Muscovite ps sss ana metropolitans. Lo, out of ma a1aaf, near the Kremlin, bursts
 s :. ', name! The surrounding re- oos.. @ ughted with the glare. The rs ''lal ;a. gale springs up. The city is
 ,sa.i n . thousand places. Sknlkers
 asm a0'ained behind and given us to l
 es n The French army tries in as.s %quenoh the confiagration. For
 mst; sa 'here IS the roar of universal
 is i'sion' Then it subsidies; but Mos- K,o.l,il u lains. Napoleon returns to
 w;.a 4lil E, and opens vain negotia- ps0ss s'n the Czar. Alexander and l Ia asha VIII not hear. The French are
 reaS. .0a ot a burnt-up Russian city. |
 fall;, winter was at hand. Snow
 tlsa. aug. The Soldier of Fortune |
 of s' ~. round his destiny. On the Ietrsst stt'ooer, he leaves Moscow, and | siSa a' begins to the Niemen. On
 foa;t: se the Cossaoks arise and assail | |sana .ses' ". A hundred and twenty soela 'eh roll away across the hos | ErOEsa s, At the Beresina the bridges
 n uoWn under the retreating | es.oar.ne sne following spring, when
 Fre6ess eIs go down the river, 12, 900
 tba aumen ae shall be washed up
 All sohstant battle on flank and |
 Y stragglera perish. The army