He planned to confront the Russian army in a major battle, which was the kind of battle he usually won. Napoleon's forces head on, the Russians simply kept retreating every time his forces tried to attack. He would would follow the retreating Russians again leading his army deeper into Russia.
In 1865 and 1866, after the civil war. I'm not sure who wrote them
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