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3.33- The Geography of Terror

Revolutions

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The Mother of All Cursed Promotions

Uchar was a commoner, and so for the first time in french history, an army would be led by someone without a speck of noble blood. But each promotion took ushar further away from what he was good at - bravely leading small units in battle. So as we walk through this, i think it's fair to say that we know what happened, but it's definitely cobbled gether from a bunch of unreliable witnesses who were far more interested in living another day than in writing an objective and honest account of the action.

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