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Episode 88: Eastward with Jesse Alexander

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

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The Battle of Magilov

Small battles like Kobreen in southern Belarus, the Saxons fight against a third Russian army that doesn't get much press. Or the siege of Riga, which goes on for the entire length of the campaign, and that's kind of Prussia's main contribution. Napoleon forces them to ally with him; they have a sort of live and let live arrangement with the Russians. That hasn't been written about substantially since 1912. And so that's one of the sort of quote-unquote sideshodes of this campaign that we think are actually integral part of the campaign.

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