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Napoleon Part 5: Downfall in Russia

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Napoleon's grand army is now the kind of lumbering entity he used to have for breakfast. Conscripts come from all over the Empire, men who cannot be coordinated so easily. An army of this magnitude is condemned to move at the speed of its slowest unit. It takes five days just to cross the Naemon River. A summer turns to autumn, a quarter of all Napoleon's troops perished.

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