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Show ToMtol'a riiydlolopy of War. "At the battle of Borodino Napoleon did not attack anybody or kill anybody. That duty was performed by his soldiers. Ho did not do any killing himself. The soldiers of the French nrmy, in going to the battle of Borodino to kill Russian soldiers, sol-diers, were obeying, not Napoleon's orders, or-ders, but their own impulses. The wholo nrmy of French, Italians, Germans, Ger-mans, Poles, famished and in rags, worn out by tho campaign, felt at sight of the Russian army barring the road to Moscow that tho wine was uncorked un-corked and they had only to rush in and drink. If at this Napoleon had forbidden forbid-den them to fight the Russians, they would have killed him and given battle; for to thei a battle was necessary. When they heard the proclamations cl Napoleon, which, in exchange for wounds and death, offered them as a consolation the homage of posterity, and proclaimed as heroes thoso who showed fight through the Muscovite campaign, they cried, Vive l'Empereurl' as they cried 'Vive l'Empereur' at sight of tho child holding the terrestrial globe at the end of a bilbo-quet bilbo-quet stick; und they would have re-soiidod re-soiidod with tho same vivat to any non-senso non-senso proffered to them. There was nothing bettor for them to do than to cry 'Vivo l'Empereur!' and fight in order to reach Moscow, fcod, roposo and victory. vic-tory. It Was not at Napoleon's order that they undertook to kill their fellow men.'' Tolstoi's -'Napoleon and the Russian Campaign." |
