War and Peace: resumen de Book 14: 1812, Chapter 16

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1. Frost increases suffering after October twenty-eighth, but the narrator argues that the army’s collapse continues at the same rate regardless of conditions.
2. Beyond Vyázma, the retreating French abandon three columns and crowd into one mass.
3. Berthier reports widespread desertion, discarded weapons, hunger, and exhaustion, and recommends rest and reorganization at Smolénsk.
4. At Smolénsk, soldiers search for food, kill one another, plunder their own stores, and flee.
5. Napoleon and his circle continue issuing ineffective commands while privately concentrating on their own escape.

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