crossed the Niemen River into Russian territory and were unopposed. After four days Napoleon reached Vilna and even though no battles had been fought yet he declared 'My maneuvers have disconcerted the Russians, before a month has passed they will be on their knees to me.' Already though there was a food shortage and 5,000 horses died from being fed green rye. 100 guns and 500 ammunition wagons had to be abandoned.
             Barclay fell back as planned but when he reached the camp in Drissa he found that it was too small and would be difficult to defend. Napoleon meanwhile was traveling through the gap between the two Russian armies and was marching toward Vitebsk. There Napoleon was 280 miles from his main camp but there was no decisive battle to be fought which was the basis of his plan and he was also already far beyond the reach of his supply train. He was faced with many problems at this time. The wagons carrying the supplies were built for hard roads and were not appropriate for traveling a
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