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• History, on this day : c’est la Bérézina !

  a well understood French exclamation On November 26, 1812, near Borisov, Belarus, begins the last battle of Napoleone Buonaparte’s campaign in Russia. A 600,000 strong army, about 300,000 French, 150,000 Germans and Austrians, 100,000 Poles, other Europeans, has invaded Russia on June 24. The 500,000 strong Russian army was retreating, luring and harassing the invaders…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  26 November 2022

  history

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