Tufte points out that a large fraction of the losses occurred before the really bad weather set in. I also wonder how far there was an "original plan". Napoleon

Tufte points out that a large fraction of the losses occurred before the really bad weather set in. I also wonder how far there was an "original plan". Napoleon may have expected Alexander to ask for terms well before he captured Moscow; or he may have imagined wintering in Smolensk or marching on St. Petersburg.