Barlasch of the Guard

Ney--the bravest of the brave--left alone in Russia at the last with seven hundred foreign recruits, men picked from here and there, called in from the highways and hedges to share the glory of the only Marshal who came back from Moscow with a name untarnished--Ney and Girard, musket in hand, were the last to cross the bridge, shouting defiance at their Cossack foes, who, when they had hounded the last of the French across the frontier, flung themselves down on the bloodstained snow to rest.Barlasch Of The Guard is the author of 'Barlasch of the Guard' with ISBN 9781419108938 and ISBN 141910893X.