Demise of Napoleon's army at Vilnius

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[Gunz]

 

[Totentanz]

Napoleon Dynamite.

I was hungover as fuck when I watched that (i.e. Not a prayer of doing anything productive) and I still consider it a waste of 90 minutes.

 

[Gunz]

I was hungover as fuck when I watched that (i.e. Not a prayer of doing anything productive) and I still consider it a waste of 90 minutes.

My youngest kid played the DVD so many times I memorized lines just by passing through the room and sneering at the TV.

 

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I was hungover as fuck when I watched that (i.e. Not a prayer of doing anything productive) and I still consider it a waste of 90 minutes.

I still quote that movie regularly

 

[Marauder06]

It's not great literature but I always enjoyed the Sharpe's series by Bernard Cornwall. Cornwall (well?) is a prolific writer and his prose/plots can get a little repetitive but I always find his stories engaging, light, and well-researched. His Sharpe series takes place primarily during Wellington's campaigns against Napoleon. They're like an easier to read, less funny Flashman.

Read a lot of those in Iraq. In fact, I might have gotten them from you?

 

[CQB]

I have lately been reading about Napoleon and Europe of the early 1800s. This is a good and quick read about how Napoleon's mighty army was reduced by the Russians in Vilnius, Lithuania.

BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: Napoleon's Lost Army: The Soldiers Who Fell

The Russians have always been good about using their winters to their benefit.

Edited to add, I know I misspelled Napoleon in the title, but I can't fix it.

Nice read, Napoleon didn't victual his armies, leaving them to forage instead, which lead to his defeat by Wellington in Spain who victualled his men.
Here's a link to a map charting the death toll. The beige line is the advance to Moscow and the black is the retreat. The black line from Polodsk is a reserve force which joins the main body and the black line gets a little bigger.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Minard.png/1000px-Minard.png