Napoleon - My Fake Diary

Thursday, 30 August 2012

An Anglais newspaper blog:

Standing on a low knoll looking out over the birch woods and grassland of the great Russian plain, on a warm sunny day in May, I was trying to imagine myself as Napoleon Bonaparte. The knoll, topped by a monumental obelisk and framed by vertical cannon and neatly stacked ammunition, marks the remains of the Shevardino Redoubt, where, 200 years ago next Friday, the great strategist stood, surveying the field of Borodino with his Grande Armée laid out before him. At that moment he was one of the most powerful men the world had ever seen.

Napoleons army lost...

Yes, yes yes!