The plight of the whole army resembled that of a wounded animal which feels it is perishing and does not know what it is doing. To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal. Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter’s gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. Napoleon, under pressure from his whole army, did the same thing. The rustle of the battle of Tarutino frightened the beast, and it rushed forward onto the hunter’s gun, reached him, turned back, and finally- like any wild beast- ran back along the most disadvantageous and dangerous path, where the old scent was familiar.<\/p>\n
During the whole of that period Napoleon, who seems to us to have been the leader of all these movements- as the figurehead of a ship may seem to a savage to guide the vessel- acted like a child who, holding a couple of strings inside a carriage, thinks he is driving it.<\/p>\n
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La situaci\u00f3n del ej\u00e9rcito era semejante a la de un animal herido que presiente su fin y no sabe qu\u00e9 hacer. Estudiar las h\u00e1biles maniobras de Napole\u00f3n y el objetivo perseguido desde su entrada en Mosc\u00fa hasta el aniquilamiento de su ej\u00e9rcito es lo mismo que estudiar el significado de los saltos y convulsiones de un animal herido de muerte. Muy a menudo el animal herido, al o\u00edr el m\u00e1s leve ruido, se lanza bajo los disparos del cazador, corre hacia delante, retrocede, y anticipa as\u00ed su propio fin. Napole\u00f3n hizo lo mismo bajo la presi\u00f3n de todo su ej\u00e9rcito. El eco de la batalla de Tar\u00fatino hab\u00eda espantado a la bestia. Corri\u00f3 hasta ponerse a tiro, lleg\u00f3 donde estaba el cazador, volvi\u00f3 sobre sus pasos y por \u00faltimo, como todo animal, corri\u00f3 por el camino m\u00e1s peligroso y dif\u00edcil, siguiendo un rastro viejo y conocido.<\/p>\n
Napole\u00f3n, que parece ser el organizador de todo aquel movimiento (as\u00ed como el mascar\u00f3n de proa, para el salvaje, es la fuerza que dirige la nave), durante ese per\u00edodo de su actuaci\u00f3n fue semejante a un ni\u00f1o que, tirando de los cordones del interior de una carroza, se imagina que la dirige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The plight of the whole army resembled that of a wounded animal which feels it is perishing and does not know what it is doing. To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders … Sigue leyendo Guerra y paz. Animal herido<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}