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War And Peace: Book 13 - CHAPTER II

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THE FAMOUS OBLIQUE MOVEMENT consisted simply in this. The Russian troops,

which had been retreating directly back from the French, as soon as the French

attack ceased, turned off from that direction, and seeing they were not pursued,

moved naturally in the direction where they were drawn by the abundance of

supplies.



If we imagine, instead of generals of genius at the head of the Russian army,

an army acting alone, without leadership of any kind, such an army could have

done nothing else but move back again towards Moscow, describing a semicircle

through the country that was best provided with necessaries, and where supplies

were most plentiful.



So natural was this oblique movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and

Kaluga road, that that direction was the one taken by the flying bands of

marauders from the Russian army, and the one which the authorities in Petersburg

insisted upon Kutuzov's taking. At Tarutino Kutuzov received what was almost a

reprimand from the Tsar for moving the army to the Ryazan road, and he was

directed to take up the very position facing Kaluga, in which he was encamped at

the time when the Tsar's letter reached him.



After recoiling in the direction of the shock received during the whole

campaign, and at the battle of Borodino, the ball of the Russian army, as the

force of that blow spent itself, and no new blow came, took the direction that

was natural for it.



Kutuzov's merit lay in no sort of military genius, as it is called, in no

strategic man

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