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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Jennifer Siegel, Moscow on the Seine; How a czar and his army saved Europe
from France's Grande Armée. Wall Street Journal, Apr. 14, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303960604575158631097769798.html
(book review on Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon; The True Sories of
Campaigns of War and Peace. Viking, 2010)
Note:
(1) For Vilna, see Vilnius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius
(capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 555,613 as
of 2008; The name | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 2 Russia's war against Napoleon; How Russia really won; It was not just the
cold or the dogged spirit of the Russian people that forced Napoleon and his
army to retreat. Economist, Apr. 15, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905807
Note:
(a) Battle of Borodino, from Encyclopædia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/74349/Battle-of-Borodino
Borodino, (village), Mozhaysky District, Moscow Oblast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino_(village),_Moz |
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