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Chapter 26

           

           Muratwasinformedthatthewayhadbeencleared.TheFrenchenteredthegatesandbeganpitchingtheircampintheSenateSquare.OutofthewindowsoftheSenateHousethesoldiersthrewchairsintotheSquareforfuelandkindledfiresthere.

           OtherdetachmentspassedthroughtheKrémlinandencampedalongtheMoroséyka,theLubyánka,andPokróvkaStreets.OthersquarteredthemselvesalongtheVozdvízhenka,theNikólski,andtheTverskóyStreets.Nomastersofthehousesbeingfoundanywhere,theFrenchwerenotbilletedontheinhabitantsasisusualintownsbutlivedinitasinacamp.

           Thoughtattered,hungry,wornout,andreducedtoathirdoftheiroriginalnumber,theFrenchenteredMoscowingoodmarchingorder.Itwasawearyandfamished,butstillafightingandmenacingarmy.Butitremainedanarmyonlyuntilitssoldiershaddispersedintotheirdifferentlodgings.Assoonasthemenofthevariousregimentsbegantodisperseamongthewealthyanddesertedhouses,thearmywaslostforeverandtherecameintobeingsomethingnondescript,neithercitizensnorsoldiersbutwhatareknownasmarauders.WhenfiveweekslaterthesesamemenleftMoscow,theynolongerformedanarmy.Theywereamobofmarauders,eachcarryingaquantityofarticleswhichseemedtohimvaluableoruseful.TheaimofeachmanwhenheleftMoscowwasnolonger,asithadbeen,toconquer,butmerelytokeepwhathehadacquired.

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