Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-29

tho resources Ot European civilization. IIo had his veterans and his marshals. IIo had his undrrkimgs. He had his genius, and tho cxppri,nCe of moro than fifteen wears of warfare.
 As for Russia she had savage forces, vast domains, an aSSCnbiaSV of barba- rous peoples. inaccessible cities, impassa- hlo rivers and ilimitable stcPprs. She had also patriotism and physical hordi- hood. Shu had the CuSsackS. She know herself; and her enemy knew her not Shr had wiutcr-Suhlimc, yellow black winter, blown out of tho hyporborcan ravrrus, uufrlt hy tho men of Western Eurppn,
 On the 2Ith of Juno, tho Grand Army, crossing tho Nirmen. headed to- wards Moscow. Tho advanco was but littlo iulprdrl Tho Russians fell back before thc r,sistloss invaders.
 The Russians under kutusof rCcedcd during July and the first half of Au- gust On the 10th of that month the first ta,tlo was fought at Smolensko. This place the French pounded into uiuS and captured with q loss to them srIv,S If nearly l2, OU0 men. Dorogo- bourS. NiaZma, and Gjatsk frll before tho invaders Tho Russians durst not stand ill the rp"n fold. Not until the 1th If Svptvlnbtr did kutuSof plant himself on the Moskwa and offer battle to his antagonist. There at tho village of Borodiuo, WAS fought out the great c<t mur,!,r of modern times. \ thou sand cannon vumitcd death all day. In der thl ~Iuuke quarter of a million of | mon struggled hko tigers. At nightfall | tho Frluch had tho field. But the de- fratrd Russians hung sullonly to the skirts of the bloody arena. where they had left moro than 10. GOO of their dead and wounded. The French losses wore almost equally appalling Sire, said | Marshal Nov, ''wo would better with draw, and reform. "IN"u advise re- treat, Mirhul:" said the marble head, as il turned to the Bulldog of Battles. kutusotf abandoned Moscow. Most of the inhabitants rocrded with him from the city 10 tho great plains eastward. l On the 18th of September. Napoleon en- tered the ancient capital. Tho streets were aS d metropolis. All was silence. Tho Conquoror took up his residence in the old palace of the CzarS Ho had now | performed this act ill nearly all the royal places of Europe. Ho had walked | unhiddln iuru Srhcnbrunn. Ill the vault at Put>plam hc had put his hand on the cataialIuc If Frederick tho Great. He had trud the unwrlcoming slabs of the E>curial. He had wintrrrd i'll Warsaw Now he slept i'll the kremlin.
 l Moscow promised rest after hardship. Here We will spend the winter ill the I Tl, Sk., gIHndvrs and mvtrupulitanS, Lo out of thu Bazaar, near th" krvmlin, bursts a volume If flame! Tho surrounding re- gi,n k lighted with the glare. The cquIuuttlal gale springs up. Tho city is ,u fire i'll T thuu>aud places, SkulkerS have I, ,luniurd behind and given us tt the tiAllvs The French army tries il vain tu qutnch the c0nl,agratiun. Fol five days there Is the rear of universal combustion. Then it subsidies; but Mos COW is ill ruins. Napoleon returns tC tho krumlIn and opens vain uogOtia tiOnS with the Car. Alexander anC kutusuf will not hear. The French art in the ashes of a hurutup Russian city
 Already winter was at hand. Snow was falling. The Soldier of Forum, tlta9 tit 4saot tNNLLNA AAAS AktoIA4lN- oL bA' tYth If October, ho leaves Moscow, anC tho retreat begins 10 the NicmeD. Or every sidu tho C>Ssarks arise and xssai tho fugitiyus. A hundred and tWent, thousand mrY roll away across tho hos tile world AT the BcreSina the bridge arc broken down under the retreatinl army. In the following spring, whel l the ice gurgrs go down the river, l2, 00
 dead Frcuchmtn sliall be washed u
 from the floods!
 There Is constant battle on flank an
 :ear All stragglcrs perish. The arm = dwindlos. Ney brings up the rear guar, wasted to a handful At the passage O the Niemen. soiled with dirt. blacken sd with smoke without insignia, witt only drawn sword and facing backward towards tho hated region, the Braves of the Brave" crosses the bridge He
 the last man to save himself from tn
 horrors of tho Campaign of Russia.
 Tho remnants of the Grand Army fin
 refuge in Konigsbcrg Napoleon. afte
 Moscow. had taken to a sledge, and ha
 sped across the snow covered wastes c
 Poland on his way to Paris He cam
 there unannOunced. At four o'clock O tho following morning. some ono foun him in his office at theSTuileries wit
 his war-map Of Europe spread befoF
 him on the floori
 As soon as 1t was known that tn
 Grand Army was under the snows (
 Russia, there wero signs of upheavt
 though all the borders of the West I'll
 Germanic States were first to profit |
 the disasters of the French. Frederic v William gave his hand to the Czal There was a revolt in Hamburg. I'll
 Confederation of tho Rhine began to ia
 to pieces. Alexander sent an army
 Berlin; Napoleon must guard his eas
 ern frontier or perish
 The turmoil of 1913 began on the 2r ! of May with the battle of LutZel
 'F'iErs- --~-aible speed Napoleon hs