no.

But the severity of the winter began now to be intense, and the
sufferings of the army thus recruited were such, that discipline ere
long disappeared, except among a few thousands of hardy veterans, over
whose spirits the Emperor and Ney preserved some influence. The assaults
of the Cossacks continued as before: the troops often performed their
march by night, by the light of torches, in the hope of escaping their
merciless pursuers. When they halted, they fell asleep in hundreds to
wake no more. Their enemies found them frozen to death around the ashes
of their watch-fires. It is said, among other horrors, that more than
once they found poor famished wretches endeavouring to broil the flesh
of their dead comrades. On scenes so fearful the veil must not be
entirely dropt. Such is the price at which ambition does not hesitate to
purchase even the chance of what the world has not yet ceased to call
glory!

The haughty and imperious spirit of Napoleon sank not under all these
miseries. He affected, in so far as was possible, not to see them. He
still issued his orders as if his army, in all its divisions, were
entire, and sent bulletins to Paris announcing a succession of
victories. When his officers came to inform him of some new calamity, he
dismissed them abruptly, saying, "Why will you disturb my tranquillity?
I desire to know no particulars. Why will you deprive me of my
tranquillity?"

On the 3rd of December he reached Malodeczno, and announced to his
marshals that the news he had received from Paris, and the uncertain
nature of his relations with some of his allies, rendered it
indispensable for him to quit his army without further delay. They were
now, he said, almost within sight of Poland; they would find plenty of
everything at Wilna. It was his business to prepare at home the means of
opening the next campaign in a manner worthy of _the great nation_. At
Smorgoni, on the 5th, the garrison of Wilna met him; and then, having
entrusted to these fresh troops the protection of the rear, and given
the chief command to Murat, he finally bade adieu to the relics of his
host. He set off at midnight in a _traineau_, accompanied by
Caulaincourt, whose name he assumed: two other vehicles of the same kind
followed, containing two officers of rank, Rustan the Emperor's
favourite Mameluke, and one domestic besides.

Having narrowly escaped being taken by a party of irregular Russians at
Youpranoni, Napoleon reached