NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW.
Sir Horace Rumbold recalls in the current " National Review " a tragic experience of Baron de Meyendorff, who fought against Napoleon on the occasion of the terrible retreat from Moscow. Meyendorff acted as galloper to one of the Russian commanders, and we are told of his exciting adventures:— " In the fading daylight he would certainly have lost his way on the boundless and feat tireless frozen plain, but for a track which the pursuing Russians had marked, by planting upright in the snowdrifts the corpses of the enemy that had fill ten by the way. F-V>r :i considerable distance, in fact, he had ridden literally through, aji »v»nue of frozon Fiencluaso.'*
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Lake County Press, Issue 1066, 28 May 1903, Page 3
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114NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW. Lake County Press, Issue 1066, 28 May 1903, Page 3
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