Napoleon Part 5: Downfall in Russia
Real Dictators
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The Battle of Borodino
The Grand Armée with its sheer weight of numbers is simply deployed in a full-on frontal assault. But the Russian army has got the weakened French force right where it once had. The Russians have simply made a strategic withdrawal, a genuine tactical ploy. It's easy to say with hindsight that he was doomed. He wanted to defeat the Russian army in a pitched battle. His great quality as a field commander is really as a tactician on the battlefield,. how to bring them together at the crucial moment and break through enemy lines.
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