History of the Expedition to Russia

Name: History of the Expedition to Russia
Author: comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur

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History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Steven Gibbs, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-04-03

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Personal narratives, French Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia

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comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur

1780–1873

A French general, diplomat, and memoirist, he is best remembered for vivid firsthand writing about Napoleon’s campaigns. His books helped shape how later generations imagined the Empire, especially the disastrous 1812 march into Russia.

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