War and Peace: resumen de Book 14: 1812, Chapter 17

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1. The narrator compares the armies’ movements to a blindfolded game, as exhausted horses and outdated reports prevent reliable tracking.
2. After four days at Smolénsk, the French resume their flight along the same road through Krásnoe and Orshá.
3. Russian troops unexpectedly meet the scattered French at Krásnoe, where separate French forces escape through nighttime detours.
4. Ney reaches Napoleon at Orshá with one thousand of his ten thousand men, abandoning the rest and his cannon.
5. At the Berëzina, many French drown or surrender; their supreme chief escapes alone, and others flee if they can.

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The sentence reduces the campaign to flight and pursuit rather than controlled strategy. It frames the confusion and repeated abandonment described throughout the unit.

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