Photo by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 

 ANOTHER VIEW OF THE LONG ETNE OF GUNS CAPTURED FROM NAPOLEON 



Moscow represented to the Russians everything dearest in their national, religious, and 

 commercial life, and yet all Russians — priests, merchants, peasants, and soldiers — joined to 

 sacrifice it when Napoleon's invasion threatened to reduce Russia to subjection. Napoleon 

 had counted on the city's rich s^^ores of grain and furs and on the thousands of horses there 

 to replenish his army and to afford comfortable quarters during the winter, but the Russians 

 preferred to starve and freeze through a Russian winter if that was the only way to beat 

 Napoleon (see page 445). 



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