The Retreat from Moscow

advance guard Alexander arrived artillery attack Austrian Bagration bank battle began Beresina Berthier Bessières bivouac Borissov Borodino Bourgogne Bourgogne's bridge campaign Caulaincourt cavalry Chasseurs column command comrades Corps Cossacks crossed the Niemen cuirassiers Davout dead despatch Dnieper Duchy of Warsaw Emperor Empire enemy Eugène Europe fell fighting fire flank fought France French German Grand Army grenadiers guns Hessian horses Imperial infantry Jerome Junot King Kovno Krasnoi Kremlin Kutusoff lensk loot main body Marbot Marshal Marshal Ney Michel Ney miles Minsk Mortier Moscow Murat Napo Napoleon Ney's Niemen night officers Orcha Oudinot paign Paris perhaps Petersburg Picart Polotsk Prince prisoners R. F. DELDERFIELD reached rearguard regiment rejoin retreat river road route Russian armies says Sergeant Smolensk Smorgoni snow soldier soon stragglers Studienka survived survivors Tchichagoff terrible took town troops Tsar veterans Viasma Victor Vilna Vitepsk waggons Warsaw Wittgenstein wounded