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There
never
was
or
could
have
been
such
an
aim
,
for
it
would
have
been
senseless
and
its
attainment
quite
impossible
.
It
would
have
been
senseless
,
first
because
Napoleon
's
disorganized
army
was
flying
from
Russia
with
all
possible
speed
,
that
is
to
say
,
was
doing
just
what
every
Russian
desired
.
So
what
was
the
use
of
performing
various
operations
on
the
French
who
were
running
away
as
fast
as
they
possibly
could
?
Secondly
,
it
would
have
been
senseless
to
block
the
passage
of
men
whose
whole
energy
was
directed
to
flight
.
Thirdly
,
it
would
have
been
senseless
to
sacrifice
one
's
own
troops
in
order
to
destroy
the
French
army
,
which
without
external
interference
was
destroying
itself
at
such
a
rate
that
,
though
its
path
was
not
blocked
,
it
could
not
carry
across
the
frontier
more
than
it
actually
did
in
December
,
namely
a
hundredth
part
of
the
original
army
.
Fourthly
,
it
would
have
been
senseless
to
wish
to
take
captive
the
Emperor
,
kings
,
and
dukes
--
whose
capture
would
have
been
in
the
highest
degree
embarrassing
for
the
Russians
,
as
the
most
adroit
diplomatists
of
the
time
(
Joseph
de
Maistre
and
others
)
recognized
.
Still
more
senseless
would
have
been
the
wish
to
capture
army
corps
of
the
French
,
when
our
own
army
had
melted
away
to
half
before
reaching
Krásnoe
and
a
whole
division
would
have
been
needed
to
convoy
the
corps
of
prisoners
,
and
when
our
men
were
not
always
getting
full
rations
and
the
prisoners
already
taken
were
perishing
of
hunger
.
All
the
profound
plans
about
cutting
off
and
capturing
Napoleon
and
his
army
were
like
the
plan
of
a
market
gardener
who
,
when
driving
out
of
his
garden
a
cow
that
had
trampled
down
the
beds
he
had
planted
,
should
run
to
the
gate
and
hit
the
cow
on
the
head
.
The
only
thing
to
be
said
in
excuse
of
that
gardener
would
be
that
he
was
very
angry
.
But
not
even
that
could
be
said
for
those
who
drew
up
this
project
,
for
it
was
not
they
who
had
suffered
from
the
trampled
beds
.
But
besides
the
fact
that
cutting
off
Napoleon
with
his
army
would
have
been
senseless
,
it
was
impossible
.
It
was
impossible
first
because
--
as
experience
shows
that
a
three-mile
movement
of
columns
on
a
battlefield
never
coincides
with
the
plans
--
the
probability
of
Chichagóv
,
Kutúzov
,
and
Wittgenstein
effecting
a
junction
on
time
at
an
appointed
place
was
so
remote
as
to
be
tantamount
to
impossibility
,
as
in
fact
thought
Kutúzov
,
who
when
he
received
the
plan
remarked
that
diversions
planned
over
great
distances
do
not
yield
the
desired
results
.
Secondly
it
was
impossible
,
because
to
paralyze
the
momentum
with
which
Napoleon
's
army
was
retiring
,
incomparably
greater
forces
than
the
Russians
possessed
would
have
been
required
.
