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The first and perhaps finest of Byron’s Napoleonic poems, the ‘Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte’, was begun the day after Byron received news of Napoleon’s abdication. Byron was devastated by the Emperor’s fall and his failure to fulfil his grand destiny, in politics and as a human being.
The Expiation: I; By Victor Hugo. 1966. The humility of Napoleon as he retreats from Russia in 1812 is told of by Hugo with the accompaniment of cold terror, variously. What Napoleon liked least — confusion — is now his lavishly.
8 cze 2014 · Angry at Czar Alexander’s decision, Napoleon gathers a massive army of over 400,000 to attack Russia in June of the year 1812. While Russia’s troops are not as numerous as France’s, Russia has a plan.
19 lis 2016 · In Napoleon’s Army After the Fall of Moscow, Victor Hugo reveals the catastrophic carnage of Napoleon’s 1812 Campaign in Russia through the eyes of the soldiers.
1812 in Russian poetry: a collection of poems and songs (historical and military) dedicated to the Patriotic War, Alexander I and Napoleon: for students / was K. V. Elpatievsky. - 2nd add. ed., with the addition of a brief sketch of the Patriotic War.
The military machine Napoleon the artilleryman had created was perfectly suited to fight short, violent campaigns, but whenever a long-term sustained effort was in the offing, it tended to expose feet of clay. [...] In the end, the logistics of the French military machine proved wholly inadequate. The experiences of short campaigns had left the French supply services completed unprepared for ...
9 sie 2005 · The ensuing invasion of Russia, during the frigid winter of 1812, would mark the beginning of the end of Napoleon's empire. Although his army captured Moscow after a brutal march deep into...
