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Chapter 1

           

           Theperiodofthecampaignof1812fromthebattleofBorodinótotheexpulsionoftheFrenchprovedthatthewinningofabattledoesnotproduceaconquestandisnotevenaninvariableindicationofconquest;itprovedthattheforcewhichdecidesthefateofpeoplesliesnotintheconquerors,noreveninarmiesandbattles,butinsomethingelse.

           TheFrenchhistorians,describingtheconditionoftheFrencharmybeforeitleftMoscow,affirmthatallwasinorderintheGrandArmy,exceptthecavalry,theartillery,andthetransport—therewasnoforageforthehorsesorthecattle.Thatwasamisfortunenoonecouldremedy,forthepeasantsofthedistrictburnedtheirhayratherthanlettheFrenchhaveit.

           ThevictorygaineddidnotbringtheusualresultsbecausethepeasantsKarpandVlas(whoaftertheFrenchhadevacuatedMoscowdroveintheircartstopillagethetown,andingeneralpersonallyfailedtomanifestanyheroicfeelings),andthewholeinnumerablemultitudeofsuchpeasants,didnotbringtheirhaytoMoscowforthehighpriceofferedthem,butburneditinstead.

           Letusimaginetwomenwhohavecomeouttofightaduelwithrapiersaccordingtoalltherulesoftheartoffencing.Thefencinghasgoneonforsometime;suddenlyoneofthecombatants,feelinghimselfwoundedandunderstandingthatthematterisnojokebutconcernshislife,throwsdownhisrapier,andseizingthefirstcudgelthatcomestohandbeginstobrandishit.

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