November 23rd.—Retaken by Oudinot.
November 26th-28th.—French cross the Beresina, but lose 20,000 prisoners and nearly all their cannon (150).
November 29th.—Napoleon writes Maret he has heard nothing of France or Spain for fifteen days.
December 3rd.—Twenty-ninth bulletin dated Malodeczna, fifty miles west of Borisow.
December 5th.—Napoleon reaches Smorgoni, and starts for France.
December 10th.—Murat, left in command, evacuates Wilna. French retreat in utter rout; "It is not General Kutusoff who routed the French, it is General Morosow" (the frost), said the Russians.
December 14th.—Napoleon reaches Dresden, and
December 18th.—Paris.
December 19th.—Evacuation of Kovno and passage of the Niemen.
December 20th.—Napoleon welcomed by the Senate in a speech by the naturalist Lacépède: "The absence of your Majesty, sire, is always a national calamity."