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State of Napoleon's Mind -- Destruction Imminent -- The Affair at
Wiazma -- Kutusoff's Timidity -- Napoleon's Despair -- Arrival at
Smolensk -- The Army Reorganized -- Napoleon's Daring at Krasnoi
-- Ney's Great Feat -- Sufferings of the Army -- The Russian Plan
-- Tchitchagoff's Capture of Borrissoff.

For nine days the retreat went steadily on. Mortier came in on October
twenty-seventh; Davout was assigned to keep the rear. Napoleon was no
longer seen on horseback; sometimes he drove, but generally he trudged
among the men, to all outward appearance as spiritless as any one. To
Junot he wrote that he had taken his decision in consequence of the
cold and in order to provide for his wounded from the depot at
Mozhaisk. There was as yet no severe cold, and there was a far shorter
road to Smolensk. The writer's mind was chaotic, confusing what he
knew soon would be with present realities. His maps were worthless,
and clinging to experience, he showed none of his accustomed
venturesomeness. The well-worn summer uniforms of his men were no
protection even against the coolness of autumn nights. What a prospect
when winter's cold sho