On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:31:01AM -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote: > There's a chilling (pun intended) map(1) that depicts Napoleon's March to > and Retreat from Moscow. It shows the size of his army along the way. It > speaks volumes. 400,000+ troops left Paris. 10,000 returned. What a > waste. Granted, we no longer recruit troops to be literal cannon fodder, > but <shudder>. > > Casey > > (1) http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard For those of you who haven't seen it before this is impressive for 2 reasons. 1) It shows just how badly things went 2) It is an amazing map in that it displays a large amount of diverse information in an intuitive form. -Jot -- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> http://www.bofh.com/books/ "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan