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In most cases, these uncontrollable fires started from small conflagrations that could readily, with proper fire-patrol, have been put out.
Forest fires, burning peat beds, and other conflagrations on a large scale discharge quantities of dust into the atmosphere.
During prolonged mid-19 th -century conflagrations like the American Civil War and the Crimean War, battlefield casualties were unprecedentedly high and civilian casualties were increasingly considered inevitable.
The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, hung low over the field of battle on the horizon.
It was growing dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous.
The cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the right sounded oftener and nearer.
As soon as Tushin with his guns, continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, among them the staff officer and Zherkov, who had been twice sent to Tushin's battery but had never reached it.
Interrupting one another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, reprimanding and reproaching him.
Tushin gave no orders, and, silently-fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to weep without knowing why-rode behind on his artillery nag.
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages.
The jaunty infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of Tushin's wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on "Matvevna's" carriage.
At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Tushin and asked for a seat.
The French attributed the Fire of Moscow au patriotisme 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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