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^y. retraite de Rnesie. Napoléon occupied Moscow, the andent capital of Russia, in the middle of September, 181 2. The Russians ftoon after burned the city to prevent his wintering there, and a month later the French army wa« forced to retreat f rom the country. Frozen by the snowy blasts of winter, and harassed by the Russian army, nearly the whole of the French force perished.

48. la porte Maillot. The principal western gateway of the fortifications of Parisi about three quarters of a mile west of the Place de l'Étoile, and at the end of the Avenue de la Grande Armée.

49. Invalides. Les Invalider is the name of a large " Soldiers* Home*' in the southwestern part of Paris. It was built by Louis XIV., and under the center of the gilded dôme of its church rests the magnifîcent sarcophagus of the first Napoléon.

50. le jeudi de Buzenval. On Thursday, January 19, 187 1, the Parisian troops succeeded in taking a Prussian redoubt on the heights of Buzenval just west of the city. It was, however, of no service to them.