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<blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 6066711" data-attributes="member: 49017"><p>No he hadn't. Napoleon wasn't stupid enough to think he could live off the land in Belarus - for one thing, his Polish allies had told him how poor it was and he'd already had experience of supply problems in campaigns in Poland. Immense efforts were made to get supplies and trains together, sufficient even if they had to advance as far as Smolensk to force the Russians to fight. </p><p></p><p>Then the Russians retreated from Smolensk with their armies undefeated. And Napoleon couldn't halt where he was - no supply depots existed, or would exist for weeks according to his commissariat. If he retreated, it was an obvious defeat and terrible for his prestige. Or he could advance into the Russian heartland, agriculturally richer than Belarus, try to pick up supplies there, and force the Russian army into a decisive battle. And we all know how that worked out.</p><p></p><p>Now if you want the person who advanced into Russia expecting to live off the land and got a nasty surprise as the Russian burnt villages/towns to deny him shelter and crops to deny him food, you have to go back a little more than a century to Charles XII of Sweden. His little adventure didn't work out well either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluenose, post: 6066711, member: 49017"] No he hadn't. Napoleon wasn't stupid enough to think he could live off the land in Belarus - for one thing, his Polish allies had told him how poor it was and he'd already had experience of supply problems in campaigns in Poland. Immense efforts were made to get supplies and trains together, sufficient even if they had to advance as far as Smolensk to force the Russians to fight. Then the Russians retreated from Smolensk with their armies undefeated. And Napoleon couldn't halt where he was - no supply depots existed, or would exist for weeks according to his commissariat. If he retreated, it was an obvious defeat and terrible for his prestige. Or he could advance into the Russian heartland, agriculturally richer than Belarus, try to pick up supplies there, and force the Russian army into a decisive battle. And we all know how that worked out. Now if you want the person who advanced into Russia expecting to live off the land and got a nasty surprise as the Russian burnt villages/towns to deny him shelter and crops to deny him food, you have to go back a little more than a century to Charles XII of Sweden. His little adventure didn't work out well either. [/QUOTE]
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