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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard that if he hadn't ordered the retreat, they probably would have succeeded.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given the Russians burnt out everything they left behind, which is one big reason the line keeps thinning, I doubt they would have survived very long on the land they occupied. But I'm no Franco-Russian war historian, I just like data.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the idea is they would have caught up with the Russians and defeated them in battle, and could have taken supplies there. By marching back through the scorched earth they actually maximized their exposure to it.