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A fantastic original French broadside measuring 16" x 21", Borovsk (Russia), Oct. 13, 1812. Printed by Michel Vinsac, printer of the Prefecture. Titled "Grand Army 16th Bulletin", the broadside gives detailed news of Napoleon's victorious entrance into the besieged city of Moscow one week after his victory at the bloody Battle of Borodino on Septemer 7, 1812. In French in part: "...Before the battle of Moscow, General [Mikhail Illarionovich] Kutusow took up position about a league away from Moscow; he established many forts to defend the city...On September 14, having seen the French army march to him, he took part in evacuating the position and not passing by Moscow....Our vanguard passed at 1pm....The commander of the Russian rear guard asked to be able to stroll through the city without firing; we consented; but at the Kremlin, the scoundrel army was made to resist by the Governor and was immediately dispersed...On the 15th, 16th and 17th of September, the general of the Russian rear guard said that no one would take over and we would not longer fight...During this time, the Russian army stopped en route to Kolomna and took Kalouga...This march, according to Russian officers, was somber and religious...The King of Naples followed the enemy to first to Podol...Prince Poniatowksi took position behind la Nara, at the junction of Istia. General Lauriston had gone to the Russian Quartermaster on October 5, communication was restored between our preliminary posts and those of the enemy...but on the 18th, a 7am, 4,000 Cossacks emerged from the woods...[near] the cannon of General Sebastiani, forming the extreme left of the first guard...At the same time, the regular cavalry of enemy and two columns of infantry penetrated the gap. They hoped to take the woods and Voronosvo march before us...This division was massacred. Lieutenant general Miller was killed. While this was going on, Poniatowksi pushed a Russian division successfully. Polish general Fischer was killed by a bullet. The enemy not only experienced a greater loss than we, but had the shame to have violated a truce...losses amounted to 800 men...The enemy's is unknown...However the Emperor wanted to oblige the enemy in evacuating his camp...to be able to peacfully go to the place chosen for his winter quarters...After Moscow ceased to exist, the Emperor had...decided to leave this pile of rubble, or only occupy the Kremlin with 3,000 men; mais the Kremlin, after 15 days of work, but the work was not strong enough to be judged as it was abandoned for 20 or 30 days...If we had wanted to protect Moscow against the beggars and looters, we would have neded 20,000 men. Moscow today is a veritable unhealty and defiled cesspool. A population of 200,000 souls ran into the woods, dying of hunger, coming back to the rubble to look for some trash and some beans to live on. It would be useless to compromose anything for an object with no military significance, and which today also has no political significance...All the stores which had been in the city were carefully uncovered, others evacuated, the Emperor was undermining the Kremlin...the arsenal, the barracks, the stores, all was destroyed. This ancient capital, which dated to the founding of the monarchy, the first palace of the czars, was gone! The Duke of Trevise was on march for Vereja. The aide-de-camp of the Emperor of the Russian Winzingerode, who had wanted to break out, on the 22nd, 500 Cossacks, was repelled and taken prisoner...On the 21st, Ignatiew was taken by Poniawkiski...The Emperor started his march on the 23rd to take Dwina, and took a position which approximated 80 lines from Petersburg to Wilna...Of the 4,000 stone houses which existed in Moscow, only 200 remain...Of 8,000 houses made of wood, less than 500 remain. It was proposed to the Emperor to burn the rest of the city to serve up to the Russians...The Emperor refused to take these measures which would only aggravate the troubles of the population...The Emperor is content with having ordered the destruction of the capital and military establishments, which only have use during the war...The Russian inhabitants will not return for 20 days. This is the sun and the beautiful days of the voyage of Fontainbleu. The army is in an extremely rich country, and which one can compare to the best of France and Germany...". Napoleon entered Moscow on Sept. 14, after the Russian army had retreated. However, by this time the Russians had evacuated the city, leaving few inhabitants for Napoleon to subjugate, even fewer supplies, and much mess to deal with. Napoleon had expected Czar Alexander I to capitulate, but he did not. The city's devastation was further increased on September 15, when it was burnt on the orders of Governor of Moscow, Fyodor Rostopchin. With no supplies, no Russian capitulation after more than a month, and an intransigent Russian army, Napoleon then began his disastrous retreat from Moscow in the middle of October. Through a series of scorched-earth tactics, lack of supplies and harrassment by Cossack forces, Napoleon's army was gradually weakened, and on December 14, 1812, the decimated army finally left Russian territory in defeat. The Russian victory dispelled any myths about Napoleon's military invincibility, and ground his quest for Europeon dominance to a halt. Folds, light toning to edges, very good.
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