The direct consequence of the battle of borodino was napoleons cause - less flight from moscow , his return by the old smolensk road , the ruin of the invading army of five hundred thousand men , and the downfall of the napoleonic rule , on which , for the first time at borodino , was laid the hand of a foe of stronger spirit 波罗底诺战役的直接结果是，拿破仑无缘无故地从莫斯科逃跑，沿着斯摩棱斯克旧路逃回去，五十万侵略军被毁灭，拿破仑的法国在波罗底诺第一次遭遇到精神上更强大的敌手而陷于崩溃。
The napoleonic wars , though more doubtful , appear to us the effect of the free will of the leading heroes of those wars . but in the crusades we see an event , filling its definite place in history , without which the modern history of europe is inconceivable , although to the chroniclers of the crusades , those events appeared simply due to the will of a few persons 拿破仑发动的战争，我们依然认为是英雄的意志所产生的结果，尽管我们对此有所怀疑但是，我们已经把十字军东征看作占有一定地位的事件，没有这桩事件，欧洲的近代史就不堪想象，虽然在十字军的编年史家看来，这桩事件不过是某些人的意志的产物。
