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To: oldplayer; IronJack

Napoleon lost enough in his ill-considered Russian campaign that not even Wellington could louse it up.


6 posted on 04/29/2016 10:51:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
If Wellington was a poor general, then what was Napoleon for invading Moscow with winter coming on?

Let's give credit where it's due. Wellington -- with the belated assistance of the Prussians -- defeated Napoleon, once and for all. Whether through his own brilliant leadership or his opponent's poor is largely a matter of opinion.

10 posted on 04/29/2016 11:13:45 AM PDT by IronJack
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