Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleon recalled his Ambassador to Moscow, General de Caulaincourt, in 1811. and explained to him his plan of crushing England by crushing Russia-the only continental power still vigorous enough to join forces with England against...
During the night of June 24, 1812 (Hitler started in the night of June 21), Napoleon crossed the Niemen with 363,000 men, the "army of 20 nations," many of them German. Just as the Nazis have a large proportion of mechanized troops, Napoleon had 80.000 cavalry...
...luck struck early. On the very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...
...five weeks Napoleon tried to negotiate with the Tsar. In October the weary remains of the Grand Army, 80,000 men, started their fateful march home. Thousands died of hunger, thousands more were trapped by the Russians as Napoleon tried to get back across the Berezina River, where the Germans also had heavy losses last week (see p. 17). On Dec. 20, his troops recrossed the Niemen. They had left 300,000 dead or prisoners in Russia...
...without reason has Chiang a sense of destiny. Said Dr. Sun Yatsen, whom Chiang once called "Teacher" and succeeded as leader of the Chinese revolution: "To save our country is also to save the world." Said Napoleon: "When China moves, she will move the world...