TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great White Army

I, Janil de Constant, remember very well the moment when we first beheld the glorious city of Moscow, which we had marched twelve thousand leagues to take. It would have been the fourteenth day of September. The sun shone fiercely upon our splendid cavalcade, and even in the forests, which we now quitted very willingly, there were oases of light like golden lakes in a wonderland. It was half-past three o'clock when I myself reached the Mont du Salut, a hill from whose summit the traveller first looks down upon the city | The Great White Army by Max Pemberton 1 The Great White Army by Max Pemberton The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great White Army by Max Pemberton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Great White Army Author Max Pemberton Release Date March 10 2011 EBook 35540 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT WHITE ARMY Produced by Al Haines THE GREAT WHITE ARMY By Max Pemberton The Great White Army by Max Pemberton CASSELL AND COMPANY LTD 2 London New York Toronto Melbourne 1916 Works by the same Author MILLIONAIRE S ISLAND THE IRON PIRATE WHITE MOTLEY THE VIRGIN FORTRESS WAR AND THE WOMAN CAPTAIN BLACK. A sequel to The Iron Pirate THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAIR THE SHOW GIRL THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA THE SEA-WOLVES THE IMPREGNABLE CITY THE GIANT S GATE A PURITAN S WIFE THE GARDEN OF SWORDS KRONSTADT. A Novel THE LITTLE HUGUENOT RED MORN THE HUNDRED DAYS THE DIAMOND SHIP WHEELS OF ANARCHY SIR RICHARD ESCOMBE CASSELL AND CO. LTD. LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE. AUTHOR S NOTE The greatest military tragedy in history is the retreat of Napoleon s Grand Army from Moscow. Napoleon set out to invade Russia in the spring of the year 1812. In the month of June 600 000 men crossed the River Niemen. Of this vast army but 20 000 famished frost-bitten spectres staggered across the Bridge of Kovno in the month of December. Many pens have described with more or less fidelity the details of this unsurpassable tragedy. The story which we are now about to represent to our readers is that of Surgeon-Major Constant a veteran who accompanied Napoleon to Moscow and was one of the survivors who returned ultimately to Paris. Constant had fled from Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution in the year 1792. He lived for a

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