Dragaera

Napoleon

Thu Feb 10 08:27:36 PST 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, 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>.


I have that in poster form - anybody who can convince me they need it more
than I do is welcome to it, esp. if they can pick it up around Stanford...