Show fl ja orea iho aho climax of N napoleons a 0 leo it 1 I s r voiles in es ey coldwin smith I 1 A 4 I 1 I 1 aj a A UT of all napoleons napoleon a insanities for they were nothing less the TM t jt was the invasion of russia what motive can he hive have vv wp 1 i ahad had for thi title saving favin delirious ambition and what was also un aw A taa ew A ya strong in him sheer love of the moody bloody game of war wax waw I 1 t I 1 jt 4 f HP evidently reckoned on encountering the hussian army of defense lt nearer the frontier fion tier winning an austerlitz oi 01 a tena die dic tating terms as he had dictated them to austria or prussia and returning to pails palls in triumph lie ile was deceived in the character of his enemy he fried tried in vain to force a battle at ensko the russians instead of fi fighting gating him near the frontier retreated before him gave up their country to his ravages compelled him to make a march in which he lost a great part of his enormous host and after handling him very severely at borodino borodine Bo evacuated moscow leaving it in flames they then refused to treat w b h him he had consequently to decamp without having laving provided for retreat of or subsistence he lost almost Ms his entire army in the wintry wastes ind but for the extraordinary conduct of kutusoff in letting him and his guard pas unopposed would himself have fallen into the hands of the enemy this error was on a far more imposing scale and more than any blunder of beaulieu or slack black but was it less les of a blunder or less of a detraction from the reputation of the man of action or even from that of he commander it Is frightful to think what power a despot has for evil there was probably not a soul on oil either side saving napoleon himself who desired the russian expedition the atlantic 00 av |