Western Civilization II / Unit 8 WC2 0718 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Borodino, Moscow Burned, and the Retreat
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The idea
At Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow, the bloodiest single day of the wars by the witness's account, he won and moved into a city its people abandoned and burned. After a month's wait the October retreat met ambush, disease, starvation and desertion.
In practice
The anchor: forty thousand of six hundred thousand returned.
Where people slip
The anchor says August; it was September.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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