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" No residents were left in Moscow, and the soldiers-like water percolating through sand-spread irresistibly through the city in all directions from the Kremlin into which they had first marched.
The cavalry, on entering a merchant's house that had been abandoned and finding there stabling more than sufficient for their horses, went on, all the same, to the next house which seemed to them better.
Many of them appropriated several houses, chalked their names on them, and quarreled and even fought with other companies for them.
Before they had had time to secure quarters the soldiers ran out into the streets to see the city and, hearing that everything had been abandoned, rushed to places where valuables were to be had for the taking.
The officers followed to check the soldiers and were involuntarily drawn into doing the same.
In Carriage Row carriages had been left in the shops, and generals flocked there to select caleches and coaches for themselves.
The few inhabitants who had remained invited commanding officers to their houses, hoping thereby to secure themselves from being plundered.
There were masses of wealth and there seemed no end to it.
All around the quarters occupied by the French were other regions still unexplored and unoccupied where, they thought, yet greater riches might be found.
And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.
When water is spilled on dry ground both the dry ground and the water disappear and mud results; and in the same way the entry of the famished army into the rich and deserted city resulted in fires and looting and the destruction of both the army and the wealthy city.
Fleeing from Moscow the soldiers took with them everything they had stolen.
Napoleon, too, carried away his own personal tresor, but on seeing the baggage trains that impeded the army, he was (Thiers says) horror-struck.
And yet with his experience of war he did not order all the superfluous vehicles to be burned, as he had done with those of a certain marshal when approaching Moscow.
He gazed at the caleches and carriages in which soldiers were riding and remarked that it was a very good thing, as those vehicles could be used to carry provisions, the sick, and the wounded.
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