War and Peace: resumen de Book 11: 1812, Chapter 26

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1. Murat enters Moscow and orders guns forward after hearing that the Kremlin gates are barricaded.
2. Shots from the gateway wound a French soldier, and French cannon fire overcomes the unidentified defenders.
3. French soldiers kill the wounded, remove the bodies, and enter the Kremlin to establish camp.
4. Troops disperse into abandoned houses, seize provisions and valuables, and ignore commanders’ orders against looting.
5. The narrator describes the army’s departure five weeks afterward as the movement of looters intent on protecting their possessions.
6. The narrator attributes Moscow’s burning to abandonment, wooden buildings, and soldiers’ cooking fires and carelessness rather than deliberate arson.

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