[44] Place where the old Grenadiers of the Guard met their mistresses and danced.—Author's Note.
[45] This song had been composed on leaving the camp at Boulogne in 1805, to go to Austria for the Battle of Austerlitz.—Author's Note.
[46] In Poland, Lithuania, and a part of Russia, large trees are chosen; and about ten feet from the ground a hole of about a foot deep and wide is made. Here the bees deposit their honey, and often it is stolen by the bears, who are very numerous in these forests, and very greedy. Thus the hives frequently become traps to take them.—Author's Note.
[47] The pontonniers and the engineers saved us, and to them we owed the construction of the bridges over the Bérézina.—Author's Note.
[48] They marched with their heads bent, their eyes fixed on the ground, hardly seeing anything; the frost and the bivouac fires had nearly ruined their sight.—Author's Note.
[49] Grangier and Leboude.—Author's Note.
[50] General Eblé.—Author's Note.
[51] This second bridge broke soon afterwards, when the artillery began to cross. A great many perished.—Author's Note.
[52] The girl, and also her mother, wore Astrakan caps on their heads.—Author's Note.
[53] At the outlet of the bridge was a marsh, a slimy, muddy place, where many of the horses sank, and could not get out again. Many of the men, also, being dragged by the weight of the others to the outlet, sank down exhausted when left to themselves in the marsh, and were trampled upon by others coming on behind.—Author's Note.