All the unfortunates who had been left on the other bank were falling, crushed by the Russian Army’s grapeshot.”, Colonel Séruzier wrote  of what happened next.
Arriving at the bridges, this mass of stragglers settled itself at bivouac on the left bank of the river. Others ventured on the ice between the two bridges, but it gave in and engulfed them. The same fate would have befallen all those who had crossed over to the right bank had Chichagov destroyed the series of bridges which spanned the marshes between Zaniviki and Zembin. Two of the paintings were dated for November 27, 1812. James has been a great supporter of this blog with both information and encouragement. These are for November 29, 1812.
We also have a new contributor, Pierre Toussaint, who provided the contemporary photos of the site of the Berezina. “At two in the morning of the 27th the Guard and III corps, including the 25th Division – which, from six regiments of infantry, four cavalry regiments and 1,000 artillerymen, could now scarcely muster 150 men and no guns – broke camp and crossed the bridges to the right bank. Sources: New life was coming into the world, amidst all the death and suffering. The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon’s Great Escape, Alexander Mikaberidze, Tagged Alexander Mikaberidze, Berezina River, Bridge, In order to speed the progress of the army, some days earlier, Napoleon had ordered the burning of the bridge train (the wagons hauling the pontoons used. The Beresina was behind us and we were happy to have marched over the series of bridges over the Zembin marshes. On November 14, Napoleon began the crossing at Studenka. “The pontonniers and sappers worked at the construction of the bridges with a zeal and courage beyond all praise. Sources: “At two in the morning, on the 27th, the three trestles of the same bridge [as the previous evening] broke down, in the deepest part of the river. The engineers and battalion of the Danube (naval military staff) have started the campaign with a considerable artillery park of tools of all kinds, but we arrived here without a forge, nail, hammer… If the operation is successful, we will owe it to General Eblé, because he alone had the means of undertaking it.

diameter had to be used for flooring. The cries of the multitude muffled the sound of the artillery as they made a supreme effort. In this way we managed to clear a path, and were pursued by a thousand curses.”, “On reaching the bridge to which we had been directed, we began to dismount and cross one by one, leading our horses so as not to shake the bridge. It is impossible to imagine a more appalling scene that the two broken bridges with the river frozen to its lowest depth. What changes had take place since then! Some pontonniers, up to their armpits in the water, were busy repairing it.

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