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Title: Through Russian Snows
A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow

Author: G. A Henty

Illustrator: W. H. Overend

Release Date: November 12, 2009 [EBook #30457]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS

G.A.HENTY]

[Illustration: SERGEANT JULIAN WYATT RECEIVES THE CROSS OF THE LEGION OF
HONOUR.]

THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS

A STORY OF

NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW

BY

G.A. HENTY

Author of "Beric the Briton," "One of the 28th,"
"Condemned as a Nihilist," "For Name and Fame,"
"In the Heart of the Rockies," etc.

_WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY W.H. OVEREND AND THREE MAPS_

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1902

COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

THE CAXTON PRESS
NEW YORK.

PREFACE

There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon
which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the
enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a
degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the
narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian
army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon's staff, minute
descriptions of the events as seen by eye-witnesses, and besides these
the campaign has been treated fully by various military writers. I have
as usual avoided going into details of horrors and of acts of cruelty
and ferocity on both sides, surpassing anything in modern warfare, and
have given a mere outline