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The figure of over 58,000 French casualties was first made public in 1813,when a Swiss officer Alexander Schmidt defected to Russia and claimed that hehad served under Berthier. Schmidt, remarkably, could recall the precise numberof losses Napoleon’s troops suffered at Borodino, though his reliability shouldhave been doubted after he claimed that Reynier VII Corps was present there!Despite such fraudulency, Governor Rostopchin of Moscow utilized Schmidt’sfigures in his propaganda publications, hoping to boost Russian morale. Insubsequent decades, some scholars, seeking to embellish Russian actions, basedtheir estimates on Rostopchin’s pamphlets, gradually making the figure of over58,000 French losses seem genuine. Modern Russian historians revised thesefigures and their current estimates place Russian losses between 45,000 and50,000 and those of the French at approximately 35,000. Each side had about1,000 men captured.
法军58500的战损首先出于1813年,声称是贝尔蒂埃前下属的瑞士官员亚历山大·施密特(Alexander Schmidt)叛逃到了俄国。施密特所声称的法军精确损失数字可信度值得怀疑,比如他提到雷尼耶(Reynier)的第7军参与了博罗季诺战役(第7军根本不在!)。尽管存在种种质疑,莫斯科地方长官罗斯托普钦为了鼓舞士气,仍将其用于公开宣传。在后十年中,一些学者为了鼓吹俄军的战绩,用罗斯托普钦宣传册作为研究依据,这渐渐使得“法军战损超过58000”的说法成为“真相”。当代俄国史学家修正了这个数据,他们认为俄军战损在45000到50000之间,法军则约为35000.双方都有约1000人被俘。
TheAllied participants give significantly different estimates. Dominique Larrey believed that the French lost 12–13,000 ‘hors de combat’ and 9,500 wounded. Girod de l’Ain estimatedsome 15,000 losses, Soltyk – 18,000, while Berthezene, noting that somecolonels tried to conceal the real figures, referred to 22,600 casualties.Chambray, Meneval and Dedem estimated between 28,000 and 30,000 losses whileLejeune gave the highest estimate with forty-eight generals, ten colonels andsome 40,000 soldiers killed or wounded. At the time, the mostdetailed analysis of French losses was done by Baron Denniée,Inspector of Reviews of the Grand Army, who prepared initial reports for Berthier,but due to the high number of losses they revealed, he was told to keep themsecret. Denniée finally made them public in his Itinéraire de l’Empereur Napoléon in 1842, revealing theloss of forty-nine generals (ten killed), thirty-seven colonels (ten killed),6,547 officers and soldiers killed, and 21,453 men wounded. Denniée’s figures,despite their shortcomings, had a lasting influence, since virtually allsubsequent authors accepted and repeated them. Currently, most Western accountsgive Napoleon’s losses at 28,000–30,000 men and estimate between 44,000 and50,000 for Kutuzov’s troops. Denniée’s estimates, however, seem to exclude thelosses (4–5,000 men) that the Grand Army suffered on 5 September, since itwould be incredible to assume that the French lost less than 25,000 men atBorodino. Therefore, if one adds the casualties of 5 and 7 September – asRussian studies have done for Kutuzov’s army – then the combined French lossessustained on 5–7 September would be in the vicinity of 34,000–35,000 men.
联军方面给出了截然不同的数据。多米尼克·拉雷(Dominique Larrey)认为法军有12000-13000人丧失了战斗力(hors de combat),还有9500人受伤。吉罗德·德·里安(Girod de l’Ain)估计损失了约 15,000人,硕泰克(Soltyk)则是 18,000, 而贝尔特泽纳(Berthezene)发现某些上校试图篡改数字,他认为损失数目应在22600左右。尚布雷(Chambray), 梅纳瓦尔(Meneval) 和德代(Dedem)认为28000-30000的数据比较合理,勒热纳(Lejeune)则给出了最高估计,48名将军、10名上校和约40000官兵在战斗中死伤。在当时,登尼男爵(Baron Denniée)给出了最为详细的资料分析。大军团的统计调查员在给贝尔蒂埃的报告初稿中提及了这个可怕的数字,由于损失过于惨痛,调查结果未作公开。登尼在1842年《Itinéraire de l’Empereur Napoléon》这本书中,把这个数据首次公布,49位将军(10人战死),37名上校(10人战死),军官和士兵则有6547名阵亡,21453人负伤。登尼的数据虽然存在一些问题,但仍产生了深远的影响,后世的学者大多同意并引用了他的成果。现在的西方学者普遍接受的是拿破仑损失28000-30000人,库图佐夫44000-50000人。登尼估计,不计在9月5日战斗中失去的4000-5000人,那博罗季诺战役联军的损失在25000之下。因此,如果人们像俄国学者计算库图佐夫损失的方法那样,计算9月5-7日的战斗损失,那么法军的损失就会达到34000-35000人。
Detailson French regimental losses are lacking but some data is available.Hourtoulle’s study showed that the 17th Line lost twenty-five officers killedand forty-six wounded, while the 9th Line had eight officers and seventy-threemen killed, thirty-one officers and 713 men wounded. The 30th Line, which hadsome 3,000 men in late August, tallied less than 300 after the battle.Montesquiou de Fezensac was struck by the exhaustion of thetroops and their numerical weakness […] The 4th Line was reduced to 900 men outof the 2,800 which had crossed the Rhine; thus four battalions now formed buttwo when mustered, and each company had a double complement of officers andnon-commissioned officers. All of their equipment, and particularly theirshows, were in a dilapidated state […] Never had we suffered such heavy losses;never had the morale of the Army been so shaken.535
法军团级单位损失的情况缺失不全,但某些数据则有迹可循。乌尔图勒(Hourtoulle)的研究显示第17线列步兵团损失了71名军官(25人死亡,46人受伤),而第9线列步兵团则有8名军官和73名士兵死亡,31名军官和713名士兵受伤。第30线列步兵团在8月下旬还有约3000人,战斗之后不足300。孟德斯鸠·德·费藏萨克(Montesquiou de Fezensac)为法军的虚弱深感震惊。第4线列步兵团渡过莱茵河时尚有2800人,此时已减员至900;下设的四个营几乎缩编一半,军官和军士超标一倍。他们所有的装备,特别是军礼服都破烂不堪。法军从未遭到如此大的损失,军团的士气也前所未有地动摇了。 |