Excerpt from A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia I 33mm that which I have seen. A witness of the greatest disasters that ever befel a great nation, - a spectator and an actor in every scene of this sad and memorable expedition, - I present the reader with no fictitious narrative, artfully arranged, and heightened by false colouring. The events teat passed around me were daily recorded, and I now simply endeavour to communicate the impressions which I then felt. It was by the light of the burning of Moscow that I described the sack of that unfortunate city it was on the borders of the Beresina that I traced the recital of that fatal passage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.