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1812 CAMPAIGN -

 
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Here we see the situation on 24 July. Davout is nearly able to block Bagration's retreat while Barclay has turned momentarily to conduct a rear guard action at Vitebsk. Meanwhile in the south west Tormassov has moved around the Pripet marsh to threaten the Grand Army rear but Reynier is shifting units to hold him. In the north Wittgenstein has pulled out of the Russian camp at Drissa and still covers the roads to St Petersburg, should Napoleon decide on shifting his axis of advance to the north. He is keeping Oudinot, busy while Ney and Murat move south to join Eugene in Napoleon's main force. The Grand Army is being spread more and more in the vast theater of war. DAvout, Grouchy and Ponyatovski are all spread out between Bagration and Barclay. But Napoleon still has a chance to keep the Russian field armies separated. Note Smolensk at the right edge of the map. That is where both Bagration and Barclay de Tolly are headed to unify their forces. Can the French beat them there?

 
   

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