Chapter 12

           

           DuringthewholeoftheirmarchfromMoscownofreshordershadbeenissuedbytheFrenchauthoritiesconcerningthepartyofprisonersamongwhomwasPierre.Onthetwenty-secondofOctoberthatpartywasnolongerwiththesametroopsandbaggagetrainswithwhichithadleftMoscow.HalfthewagonsladenwithhardtackthathadtraveledthefirststageswiththemhadbeencapturedbyCossacks,theotherhalfhadgoneonahead.Notoneofthosedismountedcavalrymenwhohadmarchedinfrontoftheprisonerswasleft;theyhadalldisappeared.TheartillerytheprisonershadseeninfrontofthemduringthefirstdayswasnowreplacedbyMarshalJunot’senormousbaggagetrain,convoyedbyWestphalians.Behindtheprisonerscameacavalrybaggagetrain.

           FromVyázmaonwardstheFrencharmy,whichhadtillthenmovedinthreecolumns,wentonasasinglegroup.ThesymptomsofdisorderthatPierrehadnoticedattheirfirsthaltingplaceafterleavingMoscowhadnowreachedtheutmostlimit.

           Theroadalongwhichtheymovedwasborderedonbothsidesbydeadhorses;raggedmenwhohadfallenbehindfromvariousregimentscontinuallychangedabout,nowjoiningthemovingcolumn,nowagainlaggingbehindit.

           Severaltimesduringthemarchfalsealarmshadbeengivenandthesoldiersoftheescorthadraisedtheirmuskets,fired,andrunheadlong,crushingoneanother,buthadafterwardsreassembledandabusedeachotherfortheircauselesspanic.

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