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Chapter 38

           

           “OffourhundredthousandwhocrossedtheVistula,”hewrotefurtheroftheRussianwar,“halfwereAustrians,Prussians,Saxons,Poles,Bavarians,Württembergers,Mecklenburgers,Spaniards,Italians,andNeapolitans.TheImperialarmy,strictlyspeaking,wasonethirdcomposedofDutch,Belgians,menfromthebordersoftheRhine,Piedmontese,Swiss,Genevese,Tuscans,Romans,inhabitantsoftheThirty-secondMilitaryDivision,ofBremen,ofHamburg,andsoon:itincludedscarcelyahundredandfortythousandwhospokeFrench.TheRussianexpeditionactuallycostFrancelessthanfiftythousandmen;theRussianarmyinitsretreatfromVílnatoMoscowlostinthevariousbattlesfourtimesmorementhantheFrencharmy;theburningofMoscowcostthelivesofahundredthousandRussianswhodiedofcoldandwantinthewoods;finally,initsmarchfromMoscowtotheOdertheRussianarmyalsosufferedfromtheseverityoftheseason;sothatbythetimeitreachedVílnaitnumberedonlyfiftythousand,andatKálischlessthaneighteenthousand.”

           HeimaginedthatthewarwithRussiacameaboutbyhiswill,andthehorrorsthatoccurreddidnotstaggerhissoul.Heboldlytookthewholeresponsibilityforwhathappened,andhisdarkenedmindfoundjustificationinthebeliefthatamongthehundredsofthousandswhoperishedtherewerefewerFrenchmenthanHessiansandBavarians.

           

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