Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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19 October 1812: Napoleon's Grande Armée (which had numbered...
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19 October 1812
Napoleon
's Grande Armée
(which had numbered 691,000 when it crossed the river Neman in Lithuania on 23 June) evacuated Moscow; fire had destroyed the city since their arrival in early September.
Henley, Jon. “Napoleon’s retreating army felled by parasites”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 15.