KUTUZOV, with his grey head hanging, and his heavy, corpulent frame sunk into a heap, was sitting on a bench covered with a rug, in the same place in which Pierre had seen him in t...
NAPOLEON’S GENERALS, Davoust, Ney, and Murat, who were close to that region of fire, and sometimes even rode into it, several times led immense masses of orderly troops into that r...
THE CHIEF ACTION of the battle of Borodino was fought on the space seven thousand feet in width between Borodino and Bagration’s flèches. — 博罗金诺与巴格拉季昂的短枪之间的七千尺宽度的空间上发生了博罗金诺战役的主要行动。...
“Well, was it nice?” she asked, coming out to meet him with a penitent and meek expression. “好了,是不错的吗?”她问道,带着忏悔和温顺的表情出来迎接他。 “Just as usual,” he answered, seeing at a glance that...
THE GENERAL after whom Pierre galloped trotted downhill, turned off sharply to the left, and Pierre, losing sight of him, galloped into the middle of a battalion of infantry marchi...
IT was a warm, rainy, autumn day. The sky and the horizon were all of the uniform tint of muddy water. — 天气温暖,秋雨纷纷。天空和地平线都呈现出一片浑浊水色。 — Sometimes a mist seemed to be falling, and...
MANY HISTORIANS assert that the French failed at Borodino because Napoleon had a cold in his head; — 许多历史学家声称,法国在博罗迪诺战役失败是因为拿破仑感冒了。 — that if he had not had a cold the orders gi...
THE WHOLE of that day, the 25th of August, Napoleon spent, so his historians relate, on horseback, inspecting the locality, criticising the plans submitted to him by his marshals, ...
ON THE 25TH of August, on the eve of the battle of Borodino, the prefect of the French Emperor’s palace, M. de Beausset, and Colonel Fabvier, arrived, the former from Paris, and th...
ONE of the most conspicuous and advantageous departures from the so-called rules of warfare is the independent action of men acting separately against men huddled together in a mas...