"Retreat from Smolensk - Napoleon's Battle" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 Nov 2022 8:55 p.m. PST |
"Concerned about the retreats and defeats of his far flung army corps to north and south of his main line of withdrawal from Russia, the Emperor Napoleon began to perceive his own retrograde march had so far been too leisurely. Possibly this was due to the force immediately pursuing his main army – commanded by Prince M.I. Kutuzov himself – was not so very powerful; and the pressure, though unrelenting, was not heavy enough to hasten the Grande Armee on its way. The II and VI Corps of Oudinot and St Cyr were still hightailing it towards Konigsburg; and the battered I, IV and VII Corps, under the commands of Prince Eugene and Marshal Davout southeast of Minsk, were reeling westward pursued by the Austrian Army of Archduke Charles and a Russian army under Admiral P.V. Tchitchigov…."
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