The Retreat from Moscow
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Story
Russia was the only unconquered country of importance on the continent when Napoleon assembled such an army as never before in his history and moved on Moscow with confidence that he would soon be dictating terms of peace in the old Russian capital as in Berlin and Vienna; but he encountered for the first time a man who had taken a lesson from our own Washington in tactics, those of conducting a masterly retreat before a superior force to draw the enemy away from their source of supplies and stretch their line of communication to the serious detriment of the main body. Just as Washington avoided risking the fate of our cause upon a battle where the chances were all against him, so Alexander retreated. He closely followed the policy of Washington in letting the enemy win battles of no import while constantly retiring from entrenched positions. An army gaining nothing by advancing through a devastated country, where there is no noble principle involved, where only the glory of a selfish...
