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Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.

It's as if Luke Skywalker had to wait around for his billet to be stamped before he could fly off to destroy the Death Star.

It's as if Luke Skywalker had to wait around for his billet to be stamped before he could fly off to destroy the Death Star.

tisme feroce de Rostopchine, * the Russians to the barbarity of the French.


In reality, however, it was not, and could not be, possible to explain the burning of Moscow by making any individual, or any group of people, responsible for it.


Moscow was burned because it found itself in a position in which any town built of wood was bound to burn, quite apart from whether it had, or had not, a hundred and thirty inferior fire engines.


Deserted Moscow had to burn as inevitably as a heap of shavings has to burn on which sparks continually fall for several days.


A town built of wood, where scarcely a day passes without conflagrations when the house owners are in residence and a police force is present, cannot help burning when its inhabitants have left it and it is occupied by soldiers who smoke pipes, make campfires of the Senate chairs in the Senate Square, and cook themselves meals twice a day.


In peacetime it is only necessary to billet troops in the villages of any district and the number of fires in that district immediately increases.


How much then must the probability of fire be increased in an abandoned, wooden town where foreign troops are quartered.


"Le patriotisme feroce de Rostopchine" and the barbarity of the French were not to blame in the matter.


Moscow was set on fire by the soldiers' pipes, kitchens, and campfires, and by the carelessness of enemy soldiers occupying houses they did not own.


Even if there was any arson (which is very doubtful, for no one had any reason to burn the houses-in any case a troublesome and dangerous thing to do), arson cannot be regarded as the cause, for the same thing would have happened without any incendiarism.



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