http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/pandemics/2012/12/napoleon_march_to_russia_in_1812_typhus_spread_by_lice_was_more_powerful.single.html According to author Stephan Talty, Napoleon’s Grand Armee was defeated in Russia during the 1812 campaign, not by Kutusov, the early onset of Winter…
“I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three in the morning.” So wrote Napoleon in this coded letter dated October 20, 1812…
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