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17. I picked Moscow for napoleon

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 21, 2020, 11:26 AM

Sep 2020

He was already in retreat by Waterloo. That was merely when he got captured, but he was already lost by then.

Reaching Gettysburg was lee's high water mark. For Napoleon that was reaching Moscow.

Lee's Waterloo would be the siege of Petersburg or the surrender at Appomattox court House

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